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Justice According to Plato

In nine pages this paper examines how justice was represented by Plato in such works as The Laws, The Gorgias, and The Republic. ...

Plato and the Bible on Justice

In five pages this paper examines the perspectives on justice expressed by Plato in The Republic and in the Bible's Book of Luke. ...

Book of Job, Sophocles, Plato, and Aristophanes on Justice

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

Justice, Morality, and the Soul According to Plato

In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Justice According to John Rawls and Plato

In seven pages justice as conceptualized by philosophers John Rawls and Plato is contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited i...

Justice According to Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Plato

In seven pages this paper discusses the many components and perspectives on justice utilizing the categorical imperative of Immanu...

The Republic by Plato and Justice According to Socrates

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Justice and Injustice in The Republic by Plato

means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice i...

The Old Testiment, the Koran and Plato's Republic on 'Justice'

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

'Notion of Truth' According to Wittgenstein and Plato's 'Theory of Forms'

understand each of these elements through sensation, he finds himself challenged by the mutability of everything that exists: not...

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...

Forms, Justice, and Plato's Philosophy

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

False Thinking According to Plato's Theatetus

Knowledge is true judgment. Socrates and Theatetus are talking about the nature of knowledge. Theatetus suggests that mathematic...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

Justice Theories of Plato in The Republic

In six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...

Using Plato's Apology to Find the Truth

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...

Justice and the Argument Between Socrates and Polemarchus in The Republic by Plato

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

Form and Justice Theories of Plato

the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...

Justice Discovered by Socrates in Books Two and Four of The Republic by Plato

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...

Justice and the Triportite Theory of Plato

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

Gorgias by Plato, Justice and 'the Good Life'

In five pages this paper examines the dialogue between Socrates and Callicles regarding the arguments pertaining to happiness purs...

Book I of Republic by Plato and Justice

In 6 pages this paper critically analyzes Socrates argument regarding justice in this text and the use of logical deduction by Pla...

Learning, Recollection and Plato's Phaedo and Meno

In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

Socrates and the Unjust's Plight in Gorgias by Plato

In six pages this paper considers Plato's text in its representation of the evil and unhappiness of the 'unjust' according to Socr...

Education and Plato

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

Cave Allegory in The Republic by Plato

of Nature. He has also noted that while the 20th century has involved a great deal of specialization, the 21st century will be a ...