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

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

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

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

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

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...

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

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

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

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...