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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...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
cases, the burglar is (or presents herself) as someone who is so under the influence of her friends that she literally has no choi...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...
In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...
In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...
what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...
negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....
In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...
In this paper of fifteen pages it is Plato that is accused of treason in this new version of 'Apology' and must defend himself aga...
In 5 pages the roots of justice are exposed in these respecitve works in which an imaginary dialogue between Moses, Mohammed, and ...
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...
still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...
knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...
This 6 page paper examines two articles by Marilyn Frye and Elizabeth Spelman, who write about the oppression of women and what it...
The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...
This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...
illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...
stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...
society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...
draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...
Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...