Essays 331 - 360
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...
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...
n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
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...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...
impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...
pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...
they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...
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...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...
negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....
Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...
call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...