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motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

created a variety of challenges for those who are employing in China. For one thing, doing business in China is vastly dif...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

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...

to a particular position. Now, interestingly enough, the position of women was not as oppressive as it may sound. In fact, wome...

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

for the student to realize that he was able to sway an entire country to follow his madness. Although some would feel that this w...

In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

good peacetime leader, and the connotations between his leadership and the recently ended war may have helped the downfall of the ...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

necessary in order to meet EU requirements (Miko, et al, 1998). Meeting the environmental requirements of the EU proved to be one ...

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

the will of the masses for personal gain...A citizens class was fixed by birth rather than by wealth. Patricians monopolized all o...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

parties during the first war. This brief government was doomed to failure from the beginning, it can be said in hindsight. Consi...

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...