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Essays 541 - 570

Plato's Philosophy and Criticisms

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

Diotima's Ideas on the Fairness of Love

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...

Meno by Plato and Recollection Theory Relevance

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...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

The Apology, Antigone and the Concept of Virtue

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

The Life of Socrates

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

Rawls and Nozick on Equality

traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...

1500 to 1700 Social Reform

In five pages 200 years of social reform is examined in a consideration of Sir John Fortescue's Of the Laws and Governance of En...

Thomas More’s Utopia

rely on hopes and prayers for peace. If battle is necessary then they do whatever is necessary to make the battle as quick and pai...

Problems of English Society: Defoe and More

Printing, and the use of the Magnet and Compass, which we call Modern Inventions, are not only far from being Inventions, but fall...

Living in More's Utopia

hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon. No one is except from this requirement, neither ministers nor magistrates n...

Creating a Utopia

and wind power almost exclusively, with the result that the environment is recovering. There are a lot of people walking, riding b...

A Comparison of Orwell and Aristotle's Ideas

not have a voice, but it is also true that there are provisions for the people to participate in government. For Aristotle (1996...

2 Novels on Utopia

though that ideal does not exist. The society that Julian West leaves behind is capitalist; like modern society, its ugly, strati...

Project Case Evaluation of North Star

that the company would not want to rely on exchange rate movements to create the required profit. Year Net cash flow (a) discount...

Virtue in Utopia by Sir Thomas More

until the Cardinal spoke, indicating that he took Hythlodays suggests seriously. Then the entire company began to voice general ap...

Themes: Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury

or information that does not come from the system and as such they are clearly oppressed and forbidden to be human beings. From ...

Raphael Hythloday in More’s Utopia

Hythloday understands that princes normally have a nature that enjoys money and war, as stated in the following: "For first of all...

Montaigne, More, and Diaz on Non European Societies

His faithful soldier, Bernal Diaz, recorded much of these conquests in "The History of the Conquest of the New Spain." In Diaz w...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Tudor Literary Tradition and Utopia by Thomas More

as long as the economy were flourishing, they reasoned they were prospering as well, so there was no need for rebellion (Kautsky, ...

English Social Critique Utopia by Thomas More

"For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to refrain men from theft," because there is no pu...

Comparison of Communist Manifesto and Looking Backwards

perfect society than one stratified by wealth. In looking at two classic works--Looking Back by Edward Bellamy and The Communist...

Case Study on North Star and West Utopia

needs to be underttaken with the use of a net present value calculation. This is the way in which future cash flows can be discoun...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Satire and Utopia in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

of war, and its punishments for crime in the name of law and order were extreme. To Jonathan Swift, England more closely resemble...

Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare and Jack Cade's Utopian Rebellion

In six pages this report considers Cade's desire for Utopia as it is reflected in William Shakespeare's political and social comme...

Review of Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger

interesting view of the historical factors which made slavery an accepted part of white society. He takes tradition one step furt...