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Essays 961 - 990
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...
leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...
is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...
the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...
also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...
around, arousing them and persuading them. He illustrates how people are often irritated by him because they feel they have been r...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...
Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...
fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ...
In five pages this paper presents a summary of the Crito dialogue by Plato. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...
In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...
In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...
In five pages this report considers how Plato defines piety in this early dialogue. There are no other sources listed....
In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...
In seven pages this paper considers how social isolation is represented in Philoctetes by Sophocles, Apology by Plato, and Night b...
In six pages this report contrasts and compares the views of Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and Plato on economic growth in terms of h...
In five pages this paper discusses the symbolism in an analysis of the Allegory of the Cave analogy of Plato. There are no other ...