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

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...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

Fact versus fiction is the focus of this analysis of theses classical texts in an essay consisting of two pages. There are no oth...

or so it might seem. But when they return; of course, they are blinded. They may know all and they may have seen all-- but perhaps...

as its model. Things are intellectually and emotionally captured by the understanding, not by the senses. The "Forms" of Things ...

of the perceptions of others. It is only the question of whether or not seeming and being are one in the same or whether there is...

of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...

many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them. One person will turn to another to supply a particular want, and fo...

advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...

to the ways in which individuals rationalize their behavior when their personal choices go against societal norms. Matza and his a...

1) Opportunities need to be open to all, regardless of background, birth or social class; 2) The best decisions for society...

get caught. Gleissner (2011) reported that only 1.2 percent of burglaries result in the burglar going to prison. If they do get ca...

This 3 page paper provides an overview of Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice," as well as a popular rebuttal from philosopher Amartya Sen...

the expectation of fairness and as such there is also likely to be a high level of applications of concepts such as employee equit...

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

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...

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

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

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

In five pages the social role of justice is evaluated by employing the philosophical views of Plato and Immanuel Kant. Four sourc...

In five pages this research paper examines how Parmenides' Eleatic philosophy was used by Aristotle and Plato as a way for reality...