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Educational Process, Subject Matter, and Experience According to John Dewey and Plato

qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...

Nursing and Knowledge

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

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Aristotle’s and Plato’s Theories in Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry Also Known as A Defence of Poesie

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

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Human Nature According to Saint Augustine and Plato

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

Socrates' Trial in Apology by Plato

his words appear incredibly arrogant and seem to stray off the topic, as the words illustrate his intelligence and depth more than...

Beauty Concepts of Aristotle and Plato

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

Women as Viewed by Plato

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

Phaedo, Socrates and Immortality

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Social Control and the 'Noble Lie' of Plato

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Christianity and the Influence of Plato

come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...

Legal Profession and Ethics

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Justice Conceptual Inquiry

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Politics and Ethics

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

Morality and Whether Or Not It Can Exist Without God

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Position Argument Structuring

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

Healthy and Sick City Distinctions Made by Plato

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...