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in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

philosopher, would aid in curtailing discord while broadening the trust that must exist between peoples. Using the Myth of ...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

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

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...

insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...

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...

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

also the milestones of development as the fetus grows. For example, they state that at roughly 20 days after conception, the "baby...

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

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...

consume other components of the plankton in which they live (Thuesen, 2002). Copepods, small crustaceans, larval fish and even ot...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...

the method by which children responded. That kids were being praised or rewarded for appropriate behavior as opposed to being pun...

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...

understanding of truth and communicating the truth of the Gospel to those who do not yet know it" (Pope John Paul II, Introduction...

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

trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly uniq...

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...

Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however ...

order to fully understand the structure of Jacobs narrative, it is first necessary to see it within the cultural framework provide...