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noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

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

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

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...

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

the family has placed high hopes on having a better future with the insurance money. The beginning of the play establishes the cha...

that I wanted to make a difference in peoples lives as well. But while my people skills are excellent and I am sure that I can e...

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

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...

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

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

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

of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

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

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...