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In nine pages this paper examines the social utopia presided over by a philosopher king as described by Plato in The Republic. Th...
In five pages this research paper analyzes the illusion of the shadows viewed by the prisoners in the cave allegory featured in th...
In three pages this paper discusses how the Athenians made class distinctions in a consideration of Socrates' noble myth depicted ...
means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice i...
Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...
be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...
In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
that was filed did not meet the criteria to dismiss such heinous a charge ("Lawyers Request To Dismiss Moms Charges Denied" ). The...
a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...
Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...
qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...
character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...
surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...
he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...