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In 5 pages this paper discusses how leadership and education can have implications for the state in a consideration of Plato's fam...

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...

it is not necessary that everybody feel compelled or obligated to do so. Moral Communitarianism The philosophy and scholarship of...

of just what human nature represents in relation to mans actions. It has long been postulated that human nature is bound by defen...

This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

allows others to live peacefully. Incarcerating a rapist or murderer makes certain that no one will be harmed by that individual ...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...

In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

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

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...