Essays 121 - 150
In nine pages this paper examines the philosophies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Gompers, Frederick Douglass, Plato, and Aristotl...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's characterization was influenced by the philosophies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Plat...
In seven pages this paper discusses Athenian democracy in terms of concept, the 'Constitution' of Aristotle, the criticisms of Pla...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...
In five pages this paper examines how Plato, Aristotle, and Immanuel Kant define political thinking. Six sources are cited in the...
Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...
he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...
This paper examines the history of philosophy and philosophers. The author discusses key figures in philosophy such as Aristotle,...
In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...
In six pages Cicero's concepts of justice and political stability are compared with the views of Aristotle and Plato. Six sources...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the Greek cultural importance of mathematicians such as Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Pto...
What was established as the first recognized law came from the fact that revenge played a big role in societys unruliness. As it ...
In twenty five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato as they influenced the origins of the...
In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...
the strongest objection is to defend human composition by illustrating how equating the two are like comparing apples and oranges....
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...