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In seven pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of these theorists' philosophies and how each of them would critique the...

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

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

or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

to discern between what is true and what is opinion has led humanity toward incredible advances in knowledge over the last several...

dawn of the 21st century Wal-Mart has emerged as just this kind of world-transforming economic institution, setting the pattern fo...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

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

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...

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

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

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

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...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

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