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still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

In 5 pages the roots of justice are exposed in these respecitve works in which an imaginary dialogue between Moses, Mohammed, and ...

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

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

In five pages this research essay discusses how private property is conceptualized by John Locke and Plato with the writer's own p...

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...

In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...

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

In fifteen pages this paper considers the connection between wisdom, holiness, justice, courage, temperance and virtue as revealed...

In three pages this paper considers how Plato's text reveals virtue to be not a single entity but rather deeply connected to other...

This paper consists of four pages and evaluates the guilty verdict Socrates received in terms of whether or not it represented the...

ritual in pagan religions for the purpose of purifying oneself (Barnes 2000). Although the term baptism is not found in the Old ...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

In five pages utilitarianism and distributive justice as depicted by political philosopher John Rawls in A Theory of Justice are d...

In ten pages this paper discusses the fool's argument, the personal contract, the prisoner's dilemma, and the assurance game as pe...

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...