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

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

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 discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

In five pages this paper examines how Plato, Aristotle, and Immanuel Kant define political thinking. Six sources are cited in the...

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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...

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