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his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

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

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...