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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...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

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...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

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

The most important characteristics of Platos concept of human nature revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People ha...

"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...

than our enemies, but inferior morally" and people must work to make themselves stronger in all respects (Plato, 1970, p. 45). ...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...

wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...