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student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...

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...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

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

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, ...

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

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

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

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...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...