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society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...
culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...
the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...
virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...
his words appear incredibly arrogant and seem to stray off the topic, as the words illustrate his intelligence and depth more than...
because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...
major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...
smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...
"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...
Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...
This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...
In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...
In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...
In five pages this report considers how Plato defines piety in this early dialogue. There are no other sources listed....
In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...
In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...