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Essays 31 - 60
In five pages analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...
In six pages arguments which dispute Plato's theory of ideas or forms as represented in The Republic are presented. Four sources ...
In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...
In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...
In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...
would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...
has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...
role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....
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...
In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...
concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
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...
do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
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...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...