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Essays 391 - 420
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...
the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...
the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...
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...
patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...
education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...
she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...
the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...