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...
In six pages arguments which dispute Plato's theory of ideas or forms as represented in The Republic are presented. Four sources ...
In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...
In five pages analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...
who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...
Plato's Apology is examined in 5 pages in a structural and rhetorical analysis of the philosopher's defense of his teacher Socrate...
In eleven pages this paper compares how advertising uses music with Plato's music utilization theory. Eleven sources are cited in...
It is important for to understand that there exist a great many philosophies by which people live their lives. These philosophies...
thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...
In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophical questions resulting from the dialogue between Meno and Socrates as presented i...
The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...