SEARCH RESULTS

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...