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In about nine pages short essays consider the contradictions that appear in the theories of Sartre and Hobbes. There is no biblio...

In five pages this paper examines the theme of freedom to make individual choices as depicted in No Exit, a 1944 play by French Ex...

he must assassinate Hoederer. Hoederer is a admirable Communist leader whom Hugo likes and respects for his political ideas. Hugo ...

He believed nature and the wilderness to be the source of strength, vigor and inspiration. He even referred to the wilderness as ...

In 5 pages this paper reviews the essays Life Without Principles and Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There are 2 sources cited in ...

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

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

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...

a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

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

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...

In five pages this research paper examines how Parmenides' Eleatic philosophy was used by Aristotle and Plato as a way for reality...

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 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...

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

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was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

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

started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...