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Evil Disease of Crime Cured in Gorgias by Plato

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...

Dramatic Detail and Narrative Structure in The Republic by Plato

is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...

Greek Literature as Reflective of Greek Culture

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...

Noble Enchaining the Soul as a Philosophical Proposition

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

Ship of State Metaphor in Book VI of Plato's The Republic

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

Sports and Music in Book III of Plato's The Republic

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

Republic of Plato and 'the Just City'

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

Justice and the Triportite Theory of Plato

So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...

'Unexamined Life' Philosophy of Socrates

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

Light, Shadows, and Puppets in Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...

Human Fulfillment Through Knowledge and Eros

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

Justice Theory of Plato

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

Perceptions of Socrates by Plato and Aristophanes

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

True Knowledge Concept of Plato

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

Plato's 'Gyge's Ring'

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

Goodness and Philosophy

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

Man's Greatest Good and Values

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

Incorrect Soul Division and Plato's 3 Fold Model

change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...

Ovid's Metamorphoses and Socrates in Plato's Apology

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

Marx's and Plato's 'Just' Society

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

Socrates, Human Nature, the 'Good Life,' and Plato's Gorgias

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

Comparison of Plato's and Machiavelli's Concepts

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

Plato's The Laws Summarized and Analyzed

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

Themes of Josef Pieper's In Defense of Philosophy as Reflected in Plato's Phaedo

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...

Plato's Concept of Good Related to Buddhism's Concept of Enlightenment

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

Plato's Answer to the Question 'Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?:'

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

Psyche, Cupid, and Plato's Definition of Love

between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...

Theme of Pleasure in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Plato's The Republic, and Thomas More's Utopia

negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...