Essays 1051 - 1080
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
virtue by the wayside. Virtuous men and women are well behaved. Aristotle makes a good point. For this theorist, virtue is learned...
tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...
Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...
smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these differing views on Socrates' trial for political subversion and execution. T...
you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...
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...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...
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...
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...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...
his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...
the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...
Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...
sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...
Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...
is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...
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...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...