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(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...
In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...
In five pages these rhetorical forms as devised by Aristotle are discussed along with accompanying examples and an explanation of ...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...
seen, but somewhat obscured by the appearance of shadows. The dialogue commences further with Socrates discussion of the divisi...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...
was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
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...