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The Influence of the Cave Allegory

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Ethics and Piety According to Socrates

In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...

Standards to Live Up to Based Upon Philosophies and Theories

In five pages this paper discusses how human standards can be lived up to in a consideration of the Old Testament's unrighteousnes...

Using Plato's Apology to Find the Truth

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...

Utilitarianism and Civil Rights

In five pages this essay discusses Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' from John Stuart Mill's utilitarian philosop...

'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...

Marx's Capitalism Concepts and Plato's Dialogues on Democracy

In five pages this paper compares Plato's perspectives on democracy with Marx's concepts of capitalism. There are 4 other sources...

Concept of Justice According to Socrates

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...

The 'Many' Virtues of Protagoras by Plato

In three pages this paper considers how Plato's text reveals virtue to be not a single entity but rather deeply connected to other...

Reality Concept of Contemporary Science and Plato's 'Forms' Theory

In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...

Justice and the Triportite Theory of Plato

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

Plato's 'Republic' and a Consideration of Rational Intellect and Emotions

good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...

Republic by Plato and the 'Just City'

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

Open Mindedness and The Republic by Plato

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

Democracy Theories

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

Love According to Plato

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

The Cave by Jose Saramago

This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...

Life and Morality

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...

Comparison of Wim Wenders' Film Wings of Desire and Plato's Phaedrus

Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...

Contemporary Concept of Love Compared with Socrates' Idea Expressed in Plato's Symposium

In six pages this paper examines Socrates concept of love, then compares it with the contemporary interpretation before being inte...

Citizenship Responsibilities

between the citizen and the government? Throughout the ages many great men have spouted views on politics regarding the role of ...

Applying the Concept of the Truth to Organizational Research

The writer looks at how the concept of the truth is perceived and the role of the truth in research. The concept of the truth is e...

Philosophical Contributions of Ibn Sina

a fictitious narrative (Marenbon 40). His texts successfully incorporated quantitative and qualitative perspectives (Nasr and Raz...

Is Man Inherently Good or Evil?

(Spinks, 2003). Spinks (2003) writes: "Nietzsches immoral philosophy seeks to overcome the reactive morality of good and evil impo...

Taoism and Lao Tzu

mean "The Way and its Power" (Rasmussen, 2002). The philosophy which would result did so in direct response to a number of social...

Justice Concept

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

Philosophy Approaches

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

Pursuing and Improving the Soul According to Socrates

control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticide...

Wives Who Tire of or Become Bored with Their Mates

In five pages this paper examines why wives grow tired of their husbands and leave them in an application of a philosophical argum...

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...