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Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

The Pre-Socratic Philosophers and Their Search for Explanation

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

Citizenship

and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...

The Life of Socrates

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Plato and Sophocles

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Plato's "Gorgias" - Positions Of Socrates And Callicles

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

Nietzsche and Plato, Views on Socrates

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

Happiness and Individuality/Socrates and Huxley

individuality and happiness are intrinsically related, as the achievement of personal happiness is associated with obtaining the i...

An Analysis of a Case Study Regarding a Life and Death Decision

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

Socrates, Rationalism, Behaviorism and Psychology

always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...

Philsophical Issues

ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...

Happiness and Individuality According to Socrates and Huxley

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

Socrates, Religion And "The Apology"

millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

Morals, Morality and Ethics

The writer discusses the moral and ethical positions of several philosophers including Ayer, Smith, Mackie, Socrates and Glaucon. ...

Jacques-Louis David: “The Death of Socrates”

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

The Cave and The Divided Line

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

Cost Effectiveness, Recidivism, and Standard Prison Settings v. Shock Incarceration Prison Camps

In twelve pages this paper assesses these two alternatives on the basis of recidivism and cost effectiveness with trends apparentl...

U.S. Southwest Prison System

This paper consists of eight pages and examines the problems associated with the Southwest's system of incarceration. Six sources...

Comparison of Socrates, Alexander the Great, and Confucius

assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...

From Prison Life to the Death of Malcolm X

This paper consists of ten pages and concentrates on the life of Malcolm X form his incarceration until his February 1965 assassin...

Prison and Economics

In ten pages this paper examines the hefty price tag associated with incarceration and considers other economic options. Eight so...

Prison Violence Problems and Solutions

In twenty pages this paper examines the criminal justice problem of violence in an analysis in which potential solutions are evalu...

Prison Environment, Mothers and Children

repulsive behavior. Some would fling the infant away from it at unpredictable times, or blast it with compressed air, or even sud...

Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

In six pages this text is critically reviewed and the author's claims and proof are analyzed and evaluated. There are no other so...

Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison

This text is discussed in an overview that consists of eight pages. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....