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Essays 361 - 390
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
One author notes how "often couples in love do not see stark differences that are obvious to others in their personality. Love oft...
to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...
truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
online than in real life; the fact that they can start and end interactions whenever they choose also increases their confidence a...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
as the emotions of like, and physical attraction (Sternberg; Barnes, 1989). Where the decision or commitment component is involves...
old age. There is a symbolic reality to the novel that is always filled with a sense of illness and decay, which are all intricate...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
cousins wife and when he was killed by a tram, Inez took her in (Sartre). But Inez tortured Florence by constantly reminding her o...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...
tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...
anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...
become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
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 paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...