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In five pages this paper examines the philosophical questions resulting from the dialogue between Meno and Socrates as presented i...

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 analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...

In eleven pages this paper compares how advertising uses music with Plato's music utilization theory. Eleven sources are cited in...

Plato's Apology is examined in 5 pages in a structural and rhetorical analysis of the philosopher's defense of his teacher Socrate...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any...

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...

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

In six pages good and evil are examined along with Plato's assertion that evil is not knowingly committed by man. There are no ot...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

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

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...

Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...

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

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

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

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...