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Machiavelli and Socrates and the Notion 'All Men Should Act Justly'

In a paper consisting of three pages Socrates' philosophy that men should always act justly is in stark contrast to Machiavelli's ...

Morality According to Plato and Sophocles

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

Venus, Mars, and Cupid in Roman Mythology

This paper consists of three pages and examines the Roman mythological gods and goddesses Mars, the war god, Cupid, the love god, ...

Concept of Justice According to Socrates

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...

Soul's Role in Plato's The Republic and Phaedo

In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...

Comparing Plato and Machiavelli

This paper compares and contrasts Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's Republic. This eight page paper has seven sources listed in...

Ethel S. Person Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters

The writer analyzes the Ethel Person book Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters, and describes such ideas as first love and bondin...

Consideration of Relationships and Romantic Love

In five pages this paper discusses literature and cinema in a consideration that argues consummate love falls short with Triangle ...

Comparing Confucius' and Aristotle's Perspectives on Virtue

spoke of virtue as something equated with wisdom. Yet he also "spoke more expansively of justice, courage, temperance, magnificenc...

Chapter 2 of The Transformation of Man by Rosemary Haughton

it threatens what they each have come to see as the status quo of their lives. However, as this new experience begins to give each...

Plato's Works on Socrates' Death and How We Die by Sherwin Nuland

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

James Conlon's Commentary on Plato's 'Scala Amoris'

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

Plato's Examination of the Soul

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...

Current American Leadership as Viewed by Plato

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

Open Mindedness and The Republic by Plato

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

Divine Vies of Plato

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 ...

'Against Love' by Katherine Philips, 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake and the Theme of Love

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

Sociopolitical Classes of Plato and Their Parallels

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Republic by Plato and the 'Just City'

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

Love and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

Drama, Aristophanes, and Plato

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

Incorrect Soul Division and Plato's 3 Fold Model

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

Robert Browning and Aphra Behn's Poems

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

Plato's Views on the Ethics of Healthcare

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

Critical Analysis of the Meaning of Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...