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Plato's "Gorgias" - Positions Of Socrates And Callicles

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

Is Plato's Conception of Human Nature Accurate?

The most important characteristics of Platos concept of human nature revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People ha...

Plato's Contribution to Understanding Philosophy and Philosophers

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

Plato’s Cave and Sartre

without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...

Plato's Laws

of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

The Persuasiveness of Socrates in Plato's Apology

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Theme of Pleasure in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Plato's The Republic, and Thomas More's Utopia

negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....

Psyche, Cupid, and Plato's Definition of Love

between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Comparing Plato's Crito with Ibsen's Torvald

Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...

Forms, Justice, and Plato's Philosophy

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

Questions Regarding Plato's Dialogues Symposium and Phaedo

thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...

Application of Plato's Metaphysical Tradition

In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...

Notion of Love or Precis in Plato's Arguments Presented in Phaedrus and Symposium

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

False Thinking According to Plato's Theatetus

Knowledge is true judgment. Socrates and Theatetus are talking about the nature of knowledge. Theatetus suggests that mathematic...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

3 Thought Levels in Plato's Republic and Dante's Inferno

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

Investigating and Defending Plato's Theory of Forms

In five pages this research paper analyzes the theory of forms developed by Plato and then provides a defense of the philosopher's...

Prisoners Analyzed in Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave' in The Republic

In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's Apology and I.F. Stone's The Trial of Socrates

threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...

Plato's Writings and Security Disturbance

In five pages this paper examines how individual strength increases as a result of security disturbance according to the writings ...

Comparing Synoptic Gospels with Plato's The Republic A COMPARISON OF: THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO AND THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS

knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...

The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

the blog sites of Volpac, a conservative political action committee chaired by Senate majority leader Bill Frist. One of the curr...

America's Democratic History

the Declaration of Independence. While two-thirds of mankind suffers undernourishment, our own upper classes revel amidst superfl...

Justice, Democracy, Equality, and Freedom According to Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, and Plato

In eight pages this report contrasts and compares these philosophers' views regarding important philosophical concepts. Two sourc...

Western Culture and Greek Civilization's Impact

In fifteen pages this research paper examines Western culture in terms of the impact of ancient Greece regarding principles of dem...

Last Metapsychological Essay of Sigmund Freud, Civilization And Its Discontents

In fifteen pages Freud's essay is discussed in a general overview with a comparison between past and present society included with...