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Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...
something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...
essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...
What was established as the first recognized law came from the fact that revenge played a big role in societys unruliness. As it ...
to what the enlightened person must do on going back into the cave?what has been done in the past, and what might be done in the f...
argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...
In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...
In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' life and philosophy as represented in the Five Dialogues of Plato. Four sources are ...
In six pages Cicero's concepts of justice and political stability are compared with the views of Aristotle and Plato. Six sources...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the Greek cultural importance of mathematicians such as Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Pto...
In twenty five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato as they influenced the origins of the...
In ten pages this paper compares contemporary Christianity and the writings of Alan Jones and Paul Tillich with the Theory of Form...
In three pages this paper discusses the inquiry paradox employed by Socrates in Meno by Plato. There are no other sources listed....
form of flattery. Socrates voices such strong opposition to the type of oration he attributes to men like Gorgias because knowl...
In two pages this paper considers how Socrates presents the soul's immortality in Phaedo by Plato. There are no other sources lis...
In seven pages justice as conceptualized by philosophers John Rawls and Plato is contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited i...
In five pages this paper examines how Plato described Socrates' trial and death in his dialogues Phaedo, Crito, Apology, and Euthy...
In five pages this paper discusses Socrates' argument fallacies as they are portrayed in Crito by Plato. There are no other sourc...