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"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

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

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...

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

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...

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...

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

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

This paper considers the quest for maturity of a Christian, a quest delineated in Roberta C. Bondi's book, To Love as God Loves. ...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Plato's theories of Forms. Parmenides' views on change provide a counterpoint. Paper ...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

One author notes how "often couples in love do not see stark differences that are obvious to others in their personality. Love oft...

to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

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...

Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...

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

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...

group, which itself was a well-regarded and well-educated order (Harris, 2001). As an advocate for a strong papacy, he commanded a...

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

old age. There is a symbolic reality to the novel that is always filled with a sense of illness and decay, which are all intricate...

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...