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tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

that was filed did not meet the criteria to dismiss such heinous a charge ("Lawyers Request To Dismiss Moms Charges Denied" ). The...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

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...

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

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...

offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...