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Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic...

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

women differently than the culture dictated? Did He treat them differently than He treated other people? Did Jesus behaviors place...

growing and the rate of unemployment falling, male labor force participation dropped by 3 percentage points...In sum, the U.S.-Pue...

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

Women do earn less than men. This is true when calculating the overall incomes of all men and women in the country. It is also tru...

The most important characteristics of Platos concept of human nature revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People ha...

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...

the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...

wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...

Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...

higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

than our enemies, but inferior morally" and people must work to make themselves stronger in all respects (Plato, 1970, p. 45). ...

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...

threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...