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can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...

how the very nature of perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain ...

In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

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

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

In four pages this paper examines the concept of Being as the primary component in the arguments established in Being and Time and...

The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

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

In six pages this paper discusses the philosophical distinctions Socrates made between these two concepts as presented in Plato's ...

In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...

In nine pages this paper considers Zen Buddhism and Heidegger's teaching in a discussion of how meditation and its value relates t...

In six pages this paper discusses 'they' and how this relates to the inauthentic and authentic self within the context of Heidegge...

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

In five pages this paper examines freedom and its contradictions as conceptualized by German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Four s...

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

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

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

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...