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within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

in fact more beneficial than justice and that the role of a good leader is to recognize when it is necessary to take action that a...

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...

He saw the changing world and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, e...

In five pages justice is defined by Adeimentus, Glaucon, and Thrasymachus and then a response is offered by Socrates in The Republ...

individual is just it is because each part of his or her soul performs its functions properly and does not interfere with the othe...

In five pages this research essay discusses how private property is conceptualized by John Locke and Plato with the writer's own p...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...

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...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

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

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

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

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...