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Plato's "Allegory Of The Cave" And Francis Bacon's "The Four Idols" - How We Know What We Know

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

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

Socrates' Trial in Apology by Plato

his words appear incredibly arrogant and seem to stray off the topic, as the words illustrate his intelligence and depth more than...

Social Control and the 'Noble Lie' of Plato

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

Republic by Plato and its Concepts

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

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

Dictatorship, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy According to Plato

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Morality and Whether Or Not It Can Exist Without God

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

Healthy and Sick City Distinctions Made by Plato

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

Legal Profession and Ethics

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

Christianity and the Influence of Plato

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

The Republic by Plato and Its Strengths and Weaknesses

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

Justice Conceptual Inquiry

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

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

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...

Women as Viewed by Plato

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

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

Virtue: A Comparison of the Views of Aristotle and Confucius

and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...

Cultural Perspectives on Art

be as tall as six feet, the addition of an ornate headdress may also symbolize the political power, prestige and authority of the ...

Total Rewards v Traditional Approaches to Compensation

terms of time and resources. There are also some potential benefits. There may be cost savings for example providing benefits th...

Exchange Rate Management

band" * "Crawling peg" * "Rates within crawling bands" * "Managed float with no pre-announced exchange rate path" * "Independently...

Performance of the Bank of America

decrease from 28.4% in 2007 down to 5.51% in 2008. However, it does appear that the bank is returning to a more profitable positi...

COMPARING CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE US AND ATLANTA DISTRICT FEDS

poor retail results (Sixth District). Tourism-related spending was also weak, though theme park attendance and cruise bookings wer...

Virtuous Action and Acting Virtuously in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

In five pages the question 'How does acting virtuously increase one's capacity to act virtuously?' is examined within the context ...

The Internet as Distribution Medium for Music

space and working capital, they are limited to what they can sell by the available space and the amount of capital that can be tie...