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Essays 451 - 480
This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...
In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...
fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ...
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
original thirteen colonies on which the new United States of America was founded removed their approval of being governed by the B...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...
he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...
qualities in the face of conflict or challenge. "Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required...Education, a...
surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...
Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...
the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...
patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...
the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...
the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
In five pages justice is defined by Adeimentus, Glaucon, and Thrasymachus and then a response is offered by Socrates in The Republ...
In five pages this research essay discusses how private property is conceptualized by John Locke and Plato with the writer's own p...
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...
individual is just it is because each part of his or her soul performs its functions properly and does not interfere with the othe...
within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...
is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....
she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...