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Essays 121 - 150
a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...
self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...
different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...
inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, the only life worth living" (Frost, 1962, 84). As this de...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
of the perceptions of others. It is only the question of whether or not seeming and being are one in the same or whether there is...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In seven pages this paper discuses Socrates' philosophy in an overview that includes his soul concept, what constitutes 'true' kno...
In nine pages this paper examines the philosophies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Gompers, Frederick Douglass, Plato, and Aristotl...
In six pages this position paper discusses ways to remove the religious frame around sexual morality so that human morality is the...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Hamlet's characterization was influenced by the philosophies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Plat...
This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...
In six pages issues involving cultural prejudice in the classroom and how the educator should handle such an occurrence is conside...
upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...
In six pages these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...
In six pages virtue as defined by the philosophies of Aristotle and Plato and their continuity are examined. There are 5 sources ...
but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...
What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...