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In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...
In six pages this paper examines Socrates concept of love, then compares it with the contemporary interpretation before being inte...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
Poetics by Aristotle is used as a springboard for this topic. Aristotle's take on tragedy is the focus of this paper. This five ...
the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
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...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...
In five pages this paper examines how Plato, Aristotle, and Immanuel Kant define political thinking. Six sources are cited in the...
education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...
subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
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...
Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...