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view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

In eight pages this paper examines how the views of Aristotle and Plato on God's existence, poetics, and forms concepts differed. ...

This paper examines the history of philosophy and philosophers. The author discusses key figures in philosophy such as Aristotle,...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Greek cultural importance of mathematicians such as Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Pto...

In six pages Cicero's concepts of justice and political stability are compared with the views of Aristotle and Plato. Six sources...

What was established as the first recognized law came from the fact that revenge played a big role in societys unruliness. As it ...

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

In ten pages this paper discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....

In fifteen pages this report considers a review of literature in a discussion of whether or not Plato founded totalitarianism in h...

In five pages the social role of justice is evaluated by employing the philosophical views of Plato and Immanuel Kant. Four sourc...

In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...

In four pages this report considers Plato and Thomas Hobbes in a philosophical discussion of the connection between society and th...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical views of Hobbes and Plato regarding the state and democracy as re...

In ten pages this paper considers how Plato and Aristotle viewed the polis rulership concept. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...