Contemporary Philosophy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (132) essays
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Honors class summary of Crito by Plato
... obligations. Addressing public opinion, Socrates boldly asserts that it is more important to follow the advice of the wise and live well than to abide by the ignorant public opinion and live poorly. Next, he states his beliefs on crime. They both consent to the idea that: under no circumstances ...
Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus
... of Plato's physical world is not a divine intelligence or a personal ruler, but (as it were) a manual laborer. Cf. Vlastos, Plato's Universe (pp. 26-27): That the supreme god of Plato's cosmos should wear the mask of a manual worker is a triumph of the philosophical imagination over ingrained ...
The contributions of Plato to the western civilization and philosophy.
... opinion. Opinions derive from the shifting world of sensation -- knowledge derives from the world of timeless Forms, or essences. The Analogy of the Cave: In his best-known dialogue, "The Republic", Plato drew an analogy between human sensation and the shadows that pass along the wall of ...
Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave"
... abridged version, Plato's fable "The Allegory of the Cave" reflects the vast wisdom of Plato, his teacher and the philosophers of his time. The story's meaning and lessons are as significant today as they were then, and its inclusion in The Republic is well earned. The intentions of Plato ...
Plato's View of the Body and Soul
... the first fully developed ideas in Western Philosophy of human beings consisting of two parts. Like his teacher, Socrates, Plato believed humans to be essentially their souls. He believed that the body's desires were important, but not as much as the soul's. Plato saw the soul as comprised of ...
Kierkegaard's understanding of faith as a paradox, whereby the particular is higher than the universal, and therefore demands a teleological suspension of the ethical.
... be judged objectively. In order to present precisely the paradox of faith, Kierkegaard turns to one of the most spectacular stories in the Bible: the story of Abraham's temptation by God. The story of AbrahamThe book of Genesis chapters 21 and 22, tells of Abraham as a leader of the ...
The Repugnant Conclusion
... the theory's conditions are false, as no-one would comply with this conclusion. It seems that unless people are willing to (hypothetically) sacrifice immortality for a marginally higher standard of mortal life, the Repugnant Conclusion remains correct. Bibliography: http://plato ...
Plato's Republic.
... of the cave, I would definitely say that the prisoner is "worldly". The prisoner has traveled to parts unknown and seen things that are incomprehensible to the other prisoners, and to use a philosophical term, I'm certain that he feels a certain sense of ineffability. The tragic part of Plato ...
Plato and His Employment Of Myth
... the "roots" of a metaphysical exegesis. In response, Plato attempted to meld the metaphysical and the natural with his abstract theory of Forms. Pre-socratics, such as Parmenides, had demonstrated the many problematic stances of "the way of opinion ...
Crito And the Lessons to be Learned from his Failed Attempt to Save Socrates
... sense, he has entered into a contract by living in Athens, to respect the will of the people living within it. Socrates explains this reasoning through a dream he had while communicating with the personification of the Laws. In his dream the Laws tell him (at line 51 of the Crito ...