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In twelve pages this paper examines these two classical philosophers in a comparative analysis of their thoughts and achievements....

In six pages a work of Plato is compared with the Christian writer C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. Two sources are cited in t...

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...

In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

In two pages this paper considers Plato's use of tetralogy organization in an overview of Books I and II of The Republic. There a...

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

prisoners were suddenly unshackled and forced to turn around and face the fire. To begin with, he would be blinded by its brillian...

In five pages this research paper examines how Parmenides' Eleatic philosophy was used by Aristotle and Plato as a way for reality...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

In four pages this paper discusses the contemporary court system and considers Plato's philosophy on leadership as presented in Th...

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...

This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...