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wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

than our enemies, but inferior morally" and people must work to make themselves stronger in all respects (Plato, 1970, p. 45). ...

that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...

the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

the book was fundamentally Catholic and religious, but then would also claim that "There is no allegory -- moral, political, or co...

least compared with the number of male creatures--the women that did exist were indeed powerful. In fact, one could argue that ha...

any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

result of Bilbos leaving, is given possession of the ring. He is informed by Gandalf, a wizard and friend, that he must keep the r...

In six pages Tolkien's science fiction fantasy is examined in terms of how the author generated terror throughout the novel. Seve...

Since the publication of its first English translation in 1974, A Book of Five Rings has become an underground classic in the Amer...

p. 772). Landmark sleep research emerged from the work of by Allan Rechtaschaffen and Bernard Bergmann at the University of...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the text in an assessment of the premeditated aspects of Paul Dickson's slaying of Jim Kendall....

was all but foreign to them before the citys fall. This makes for an interesting study of how individuals choose their path in li...

recommendation also means the Microsoft culture needs to change from one of infallibility into one in which risk can be assumed, a...

knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...

original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...