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Essays 211 - 240
close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...
was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...
call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...
the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...
attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...
on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...
concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...
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...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...
much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...
living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...
senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...
a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...
change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...
So for Plato, this idea extended into both personal and political ramifications. He reasoned that when an individual was doing th...
In a paper consisting of three pages Socrates' philosophy that men should always act justly is in stark contrast to Machiavelli's ...
In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...
This paper compares and contrasts Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's Republic. This eight page paper has seven sources listed in...
In four pages Plato's input is sought in the establishment of a new Dogwood constitution. Three sources are cited in the bibliogr...
In six pages this paper discusses the philosophical distinctions Socrates made between these two concepts as presented in Plato's ...
In three pages this paper discusses Plato's Phaedo in terms of the mechanistic mind model and Socrates' arguments designed against...
In five pages this paper analyzes Plato's Philebus in terms of the writing style and the philosopher's message. There are no othe...
In fifteen pages this paper considers the connection between wisdom, holiness, justice, courage, temperance and virtue as revealed...