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The importance of critical thinking in modern society cannot be overestimated. This paper discusses critical thinking, what it is ...

Critical thinking has become even more important in today's society of opinion masquerading as news. This paper analyzes contempor...

This research paper offers an overview of a case study described by Lunney (2010). The analysis provided by Lunney demonstrates th...

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...

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

to what the enlightened person must do on going back into the cave?what has been done in the past, and what might be done in the f...

In four pages this paper discusses the contemporary court system and considers Plato's philosophy on leadership as presented in Th...

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

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

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

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

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

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

In five pages this report examines Plato's perspectives on leadership as they are reflected in The Republic. One source is cited ...

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

In six pages the arguments of city vs. state, the individual, and soul and spirit that are raised in Hegel's Introduction to the P...

This paper compares and contrasts Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's Republic. This eight page paper has seven sources listed in...