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Essays 271 - 300
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
generation ancestors behaved as well. He classifies most relationships between family members as "the orders of love," and indicat...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
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...
Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...
it threatens what they each have come to see as the status quo of their lives. However, as this new experience begins to give each...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....
Plato's Euthyphro is employed in this paper consisting of eight pages in order to explore the roots of godly piety and this tutori...
should also make note of how "King Rat" calls attention to the limits of administration and the influence of the political realm w...
In five pages this paper examines political rule in a consideration of knowledge, wisdom, and morality in Plato's The Republic. T...
In two pages this paper considers Plato's use of tetralogy organization in an overview of Books I and II of The Republic. There a...
out, inasmuch as one cannot love someone more than life itself. Indeed, this concept proves too great a burden for another person...
only a satire of society and politics, it is also an example of ones examination of his life. Although this work is a satire, it ...
In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...
In five pages this report discusses how love and time are featured in the poems 'Adam's Curse,' 'O Do not Love too Long,' and 'Nev...
In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...
her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...