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tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

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

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

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...

only a satire of society and politics, it is also an example of ones examination of his life. Although this work is a satire, it ...

In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...

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

In three pages this paper discusses Plato's Phaedo in terms of the mechanistic mind model and Socrates' arguments designed against...

In five pages this paper considers the purpose of Socrates' arguments as featured in three of Plato's dialogues. There are no oth...

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

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

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

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

In nine pages this paper discusses how man's best life can be best pursued, concepts of good and evil, and divine knowledge accord...

he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...

In twenty five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato as they influenced the origins of the...

In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' arguments regarding capital punishment and the sophist foundation that cements them....

make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...