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it is not necessary that everybody feel compelled or obligated to do so. Moral Communitarianism The philosophy and scholarship of...

This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...

This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...

This paper examines how the human concept of virtue and its pursuit influence human nature and society within the context of the t...

of just what human nature represents in relation to mans actions. It has long been postulated that human nature is bound by defen...

In 5 pages this paper discusses how leadership and education can have implications for the state in a consideration of Plato's fam...

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

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

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...

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

various experiences are provided by Socrates and the others. In some way, the work examines the idea of power. After all, if someo...

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

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

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

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

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of Rectifactory Justice as defined by Aristotle. This paper includes examples of the volunt...

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...