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

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...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

components invented in the 1940s that ultimately paved the way for computer technology - the only people who were capable of opera...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

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...

notes that he kept it quiet for a long time from the public eye. His medication allowed him to do this so that people were not awa...

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

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...

advantage of the Comanche. Quanah grew up a Comanche warrior. Even then, however, he knew of the world of the...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

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

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...

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

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

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...

the time the child enters elementary school, so about age 6, they may be capable of conventional morality although they could stil...

ability to outreason and outlearn their human counterparts, leaving humanity open to an entirely unknown reality if that is ever t...

easily see that living in the moment was the only thing that someone in that situation could hope to do, and to turn inward, losin...

In essence, the state is offering to take low-income residents and build homes for them where those with greater financial resourc...

has necessitated their decline in power. There had also been political instability accompanied by the need for economic reform. ...

with each other. Certainly community sport cannot solve all of societys problems, but it is a proven route to enhancing com...

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of Rectifactory Justice as defined by Aristotle. This paper includes examples of the volunt...

one jurisdiction. This falls in line with the fact that public management continues to adopt practices more aligned with c...

price of the A3XX was 12% more than the cost of a 747, but the 35% greater capacity meant that there was an increased level of eff...