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Essays 61 - 90
In five pages this paper discusses how human standards can be lived up to in a consideration of the Old Testament's unrighteousnes...
This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...
In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...
In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...
In five pages this paper compares Plato's perspectives on democracy with Marx's concepts of capitalism. There are 4 other sources...
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 considers how Plato's text reveals virtue to be not a single entity but rather deeply connected to other...
anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...
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...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...
the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...
reliance on Gods righteousness, he became determined to seek revenge upon the landowners family. However, before he could do so af...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...
that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
characters and their quest for happiness, despite the fact their lives are typically mired in chaos and confusion. Carver presents...
not get angry or confused and it does not mean that we even need to like our children. We love them no matter what they do. This m...
In four pages this paper asks 'What is love?' and attempts to define this complex question....
to what love really is because they approach it from the wrong perspective. They believe that love is something to be found house...
of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes mentally,...
In four pages this paper examines the symbolism in terms of how a couple's aging love is represented in the sonnet....