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you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

This essay focuses on Plato's use of dialogue in his "Apology" and "Crito," and Augustine's use of the monologue in his "Confessio...

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

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

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...

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

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

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

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

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

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....

In four pages Plato's input is sought in the establishment of a new Dogwood constitution. Three sources are cited in the bibliogr...

In ten pages this paper examines how women's societal roles are represented in Plato's The Apology, Dante's 'The Inferno,' William...

In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...

In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...

In five pages this report examines 2 questions on happiness in a consideration of Plato's works regarding the relationship between...

In five pages this paper examines youth and adult education according to Plato's philosophy. Three sources are listed in the bibl...

In a paper consisting of three pages it is contemplated what Russell's reaction to Plato's efforts to account for nature of realit...