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Personal Knowledge and Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

An Analysis of a Case Study Regarding a Life and Death Decision

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave: A Metaphysical View

would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...

Happiness and Individuality According to Socrates and Huxley

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

Psychology and Philosophy

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

Concept of a Spiritual Journey

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

Comparison of the Philosophical Concepts of Plato and Martin Heidegger

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

Men's and Women's Education and the Philosophy of Plato

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

Republic by Plato and the 'Just City'

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

Current American Leadership as Viewed by Plato

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Open Mindedness and The Republic by Plato

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

Divine Vies of Plato

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

James Conlon's Commentary on Plato's 'Scala Amoris'

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

The Life of Socrates

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

Plato's View of Who Should Rule

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

Culture, Education and Legislation in Plato's Laws

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

Plato: Law, War, Peace and Virtue in the "Laws"

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

Jury Member Speaks Out on Socrates’ Innocence

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

Leadership and the Forms Theory of Plato

In ten pages this paper examines Plato's views on leadership and human nature as they manifest themselves in his Theory of Forms. ...

'Just Society' Quest

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

Ascetic and Hedonistic Ideals in Protagoras by Plato

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...

Dialogue Format of Plato

In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

Goodness and Philosophy

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...