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noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...

anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

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...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...

This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of Rectifactory Justice as defined by Aristotle. This paper includes examples of the volunt...

Death is usually an awkward topic and one many people avoid even when facing the impending death of a loved one. Some believe that...

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

as the emotions of like, and physical attraction (Sternberg; Barnes, 1989). Where the decision or commitment component is involves...