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she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

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

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

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

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

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

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...

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...

all the same species, we are all precisely equal. That is clearly untrue: we are all very different in physical appearance, and we...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

the class they come from. The nautre is open and forgiving, they have short attention spans and any negative emotions are likely t...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...