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

as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things ...

inseparable from its body, or at any rate that certain parts of it are" (Aristotle "On the Soul" 21). Aristotles view of the soul...

In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...

pious is to act like him, and not tolerate any ill act. Socrates wants more detail. Euthyphro says that what pleases the gods is ...

thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...

that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

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

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

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

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

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

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

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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

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...

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

In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...

In five pages this paper examines political rule in a consideration of knowledge, wisdom, and morality in Plato's The Republic. T...

In two pages this paper considers Plato's use of tetralogy organization in an overview of Books I and II of The Republic. There a...

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...

In five pages analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...