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

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

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

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

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

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

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...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

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...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

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

and is a significant problem, but while the problem remains, legal aid programs do little to help. An example of why this is the c...

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

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

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

the streets? Will Valentine disgrace himself in the commodities market? Since this is a comedy, we know the answer to both questio...

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

offender population. Rehabilitation refers to "changing either the offenders objective circumstances or his value system in ways t...