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

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

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

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

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

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

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

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 ...

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

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

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

was sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker depending on the individual. Over the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. ...

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...