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tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...

various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

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 ...

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

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

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...

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