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people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...

anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

it threatens what they each have come to see as the status quo of their lives. However, as this new experience begins to give each...

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

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

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

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