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of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

Colette and sing happy songs about flowers and birds. (point one) But, of course, flower songs are not for grown ups. Now, the so...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

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

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

took the time to teach him a "proper" language, and not the "gabble" that he spoke when she and her father first arrived. Caliba...