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Essays 151 - 180
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...
In five pages justice is defined by Adeimentus, Glaucon, and Thrasymachus and then a response is offered by Socrates in The Republ...
in fact more beneficial than justice and that the role of a good leader is to recognize when it is necessary to take action that a...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...
stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
they know was agreed upon in full assembly; and should it be decided that this is not so, the poor have discovered a hundred excus...
the notion of justice. This was essentially defined as doing the right thing. We note that one of the characters in the Republic i...
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
of things from a military perspective. There is not only the integrity of the individual and the integrity of the military but al...
to the post in 2002 for a second five-year term (Arenson, 2002). This means that at the time Arenson wrote her article, more than ...
And, in terms of using their sexuality, "They do not share their couches with their husbands but with the other men who happen to ...
peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...
can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...
advent of history. When women were allowed to work in the factories during World War II, it was found that the women were actually...
much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...
"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less a...