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This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...
In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...
"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...
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...
of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
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 Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
In six pages this research essay considers the differences that exist in the political philosophies of John Locke and Plato. Four...
In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...
In nine pages this paper examines the philosophies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Gompers, Frederick Douglass, Plato, and Aristotl...
In seven pages this paper discuses Socrates' philosophy in an overview that includes his soul concept, what constitutes 'true' kno...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...
form of flattery. Socrates voices such strong opposition to the type of oration he attributes to men like Gorgias because knowl...
In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' life and philosophy as represented in the Five Dialogues of Plato. Four sources are ...