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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

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

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

any sense of justice. But, the universe, in terms of the cosmic and God does have a concern for justice. As such the future, if th...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...