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

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...

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...

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

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

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

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

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

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...

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...

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

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...

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...

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

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

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 ...