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

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

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

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

In five pages this paper examines a hypothetical contemporary dialogue between these 3 philosophers on how daily life features vir...

is often called the father of Western philosophy, reinforces a legal system that survives to this day in the United States, and in...

In eight pages the philosophies of these great ancient Greek thinkers on these topics are examined with terms including peitho, ag...

First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...

was also Aristotle who determined that in a beehive there was a particular leader, though he called it a "king" (Aristotle, 2006)....

it mean for a person to be functioning well-or in this case, to be functioning to his highest capability? Its more than acquiring...

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

The other part listens to reason "as one would listen to a father." Aristotle asserted that there was no absolute, objectively, ...

In a paper consisting of five pages the concepts of human good, the 'doctrine of the mean,' and 'phronesis' as presented in Books ...

In eight pages classical and modern philosophers are consulted regarding their thoughts on the postmodern world in order to determ...

In eight pages this research paper examines Aristotle's life and philosophical teachings with criticisms of his teachings also inc...

on their own account." The disciple shows Strepsiades a globe used for astronomy and a map used for geometry. Strepsiades see...

In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....

Plato's Euthyphro is employed in this paper consisting of eight pages in order to explore the roots of godly piety and this tutori...

In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...

This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...

In five pages this essay distinguishes between how forms were conceptualized by Plato and his student Aristotle with Aristotle bei...

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...

of human thinking and an awareness of what constitutes the basics of human nature. Their lessons and attitudes are still relevant ...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

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...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

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