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Love According to Aristophanes and Socrates in Symposium by Plato

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Plato's ideas regarding love with the views of Socrates and Aristophanes as expres...

Citizen Duty According to Socrates in Plato's Crito

In five pages this report considers Socrates' belief that an individual's foremost responsibility is to the state. There are no o...

Human Effort and Improvement According to Socrates and Seneca

In five pages this report discusses the extent human effort can result in improvement in a consideration of Letters from the Stoic...

Serving the Gods According to Socrates

beings. Euthyphro would of course agree with that sentiment and oppose Socrates on this matter. The gods of course are powerful. W...

Why Socrates 'Did' Philosophy According to J.S. Mill

In four pages John Stuart Mill's views on why philosophy was 'done' by Socrates are examined in a consideration of the ancient Gre...

Concept of Justice According to Socrates

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...

Love According to Socrates

In five pages this paper considers how Socrates may have delivered a speech regarding love with references made to Symposium by ...

Justice According to Socrates and Thrasymachus

but never the subjects. The result is that injustice lords it over those who are truly simple and truly just. Because the unjust...

Elenchos According to Socrates

always employs the dialogue not only as a didactic device, but as a technique for the actual discovery of opinions amongst men, th...

Happiness and Individuality According to Socrates and Huxley

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

Two Novels and Gender Roles

This paper pertains to "We So Seldom Look on Love," a short story by Barbara Gowdy and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, a g...

Applying Maslow to a Movie Character

Maslow was a different kind of personality theorist insofar as he believed all people were good and all people were born with the ...

Scientology and Its Impact on Actor Tom Cruise

its members. From this perspective it is easy to see that Scientology has more than likely had as negative of an impact on Tom Cr...

Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

Representation of Captain Ahab as Evil, Good, Death, and Life All At the Same Time

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville embodies all the dualities of the life ...

Mahatma Gandhi's 'Goodl Life' According to Aristotle

In eight pages this paper examines Mahatma Gandhi's life in an application of Aristotle's 'good life' concepts. Two sources are c...

Life and Times of Vlad Tepes, the Original Dracula

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...

Good and Evil According to Immanuel Kant

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

Virtue, Justice, and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas

In seven pages this paper discusses how this preeminent religious philosopher defined virtue, justice, and the common good. One s...

Good and Evil According to Philosophers William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, St. Augustine of Hippo, and Aristotle

In six pages this paper discusses the modern and classical concepts of good and evil as conceptualized by these philosophers. Fiv...

Good Marriage According to J.S. Mill

In five pages this paper examines The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill in order to determine how the philosopher conceptual...

Common Good and General Will According to Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines Rousseau's The Social Contract and Discourses on Origins of Inequality in a consideration of the ...

Justice and Social Good According to John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages this paper examines justice and social good in a contrast and comparison of the perspectives of John Locke and Jean ...

Good Taste and Art According to David Hume

In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...

Good and Evil According to Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche

In three pages this paper examines morality principles in a comparison and contrasting of Civilization and Its Discontents by Freu...

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...

Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

Socratic Philosophy and Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...

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 ...