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Economic Justice, the Church, and Theories of Poverty

In four pages this paper discusses the role of the Church regarding issues of poverty, economic justice, and government accountabi...

Socrates' Arguments in The Republic, Apology, and Crito

In five pages this paper considers the purpose of Socrates' arguments as featured in three of Plato's dialogues. There are no oth...

Socrates' Wisdom in Apology by Plato

In ten pages this paper examines the wisdom of Socrates as it is depicted in Plato's Apology. There are no other sources listed....

Contemporary Courts and Books Six and Seven of Plato's The Republic

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

Defiance of Authority in Life and in Literature

In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...

Plato and Confucius on the State and Society

In eleven pages this research paper contrasts and compares Plato's and Confucius's perceptions on the ruling state and society wit...

Poetics vs. Apology, Comparing Plato and Aristotle

Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Socrates on the Body and Soul

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...

Arts and the Views of Plato

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

Consequences of Morality in The Republic by Plato

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

Thematic Similarities in the Writings of Plato, Cicero, and Sophocles

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

Value of Piety

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Truth and Documentary Theater

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

Apology of Plato and Civil Disobedience

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

Good and Evil as Conceptualized by Plato in Meno

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

Analyzing The Republic of Plato

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

Comparing Plato and Machiavelli

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

'Just Society' Quest

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

Ascetic and Hedonistic Ideals in Protagoras by Plato

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...

Dialogue Format of Plato

In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...

A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

his particular notions; some of these are, in brief, that every person should have equal access to basic liberties and also that s...

Love According to Plato

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

Was Socrates a Patriot or a Traitor?

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

Excerpt from Euthyphro by Plato

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

John Rawls' Theory of Justice and the Administration of President George W. Bush

on justice that even the welfare of society cannot override" (Rawls PG). When examining the impact of Rawls theories with regard ...