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a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

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...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

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

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

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 ...