Essays on Philosophers

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Plato's Biography

5 pages / 2081 words

Plato whose original name was Aristocles was born into one of the most known aristocratic families of Athens. His father name was Ariston and his mother’s name was Perictione. His aristocrat family and the historic period created lots of impacts for Plato’s point of view...

Plato

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Locke, Hobbes, and The Federalist Papers

2 pages / 977 words

The Federalist Papers, written by Jay, Madison, and Hamilton, were laid out in order to convince the individual states to ratify the new U.S. Constitution and defend a central government. Many times the words of these Founding Fathers echoed those of 17th century authors Thomas...

Book Review John Locke Thomas Hobbes

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A Comparison Between The Life Goals and Missions of Saint Augustine and Socrates

3 pages / 1455 words

The most interesting historical figures that have ever existed are Socrates and St. Augustine that were in the center of the spiritual life in ancient time. Their works still are the most influential all over the world. Augustine and Socrates focused on the life with...

Augustine Life Goals Socrates

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Civil Disobedience in The Arguments of Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Socrates

4 pages / 1723 words

Civil disobedience can be defined in a number of different ways: in its most raw form, “civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest because of moral objections to said...

Civil Disobedience Martin Luther King Socrates

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Actions Done Out of Love Are Always Beyond Good and Evil

3 pages / 1348 words

Critical Analysis of Nietzsche’s Claim: Actions Done out Of Love Are Always beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the renowned German philosophers, cultural critics, and an essayist. Nietzsche’s works on aesthetics, realization, truth, cultural theory, the meaning of existence, language, decency, history,...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A Comparison of The Similarities and Differences Between The Matrix, Descartes, and Plato

2 pages / 792 words

The synopsis of The Matrix and the readings from Platos and Descartes all have similarities as well as differences. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay One thing...

Plato Rene Descartes The Matrix

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Evaluation of Three Scholarly Definitions of Reliigon

2 pages / 996 words

Introduction This essay will discuss and evaluate three scholarly definitions of religion. It will use a range of both primary and secondary sources to determine which is the best definition of religion. The essay will examine and assess the beliefs and theories of Emile Durkheim,...

Emile Durkheim Karl Marx

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A Critique of Discourse on Inequality, a Book by Jean-jacques Rousseau

3 pages / 1583 words

How would Rousseau’s General Will eliminate the tendency of individuals to distinguish themselves from each other which he had identified in the Discourse on Inequality? Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts...

Rousseau

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The Noble Macbeth: an Aristotelian Tragedy

3 pages / 1519 words

Tragedy is a serious play in which the main character is characterized to have some psychological weakness, thereby going through a series of misfortunes that lead to his destructive end. Aristotle in his Poetics posited that catharsis is the defining feature and definitive end of...

Aristotle Macbeth

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The Topic of Permissible Sexuality in The Philosophy of Sex Drawing from Immanuel Kant, Thomas Mappes and Howard Klepper

4 pages / 1711 words

Of the many topics in the philosophy of sex is permissible sexuality. Philosophy however sometimes tends to overintellectualize the discussion. What makes sex permissible may not be so strict. Drawing from Immanuel Kant’s humanity formulation, I argue that permissible sex requires only informed and voluntary...

Immanuel Kant Personal Philosophy

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John Locke's Idea of The Executive's Prerogative in The Second Treatises of Government

2 pages / 1068 words

Chapter Fourteen of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government discusses the prerogative of the executive. Locke defines prerogative as the “power to act according to discretion, for the public good, without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it” (Locke §160). For Locke,...

John Locke

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The Determination of Truth in Allegory of The Cave, a Book by Socrates

3 pages / 1464 words

Introduction The quest for truth is a multifaceted endeavor, often obscured by the multitude of perspectives from which an event or concept can be perceived. Throughout this semester, I have delved into the complex exploration of truth, leading me to recognize that truth should not...

Allegory of The Cave Socrates

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An Analysis of a Community's Morality in The Republic, a Book by Plato

3 pages / 1499 words

Plato’s Republic is searching for morality, justice and the just state while raising moral questions and examining them from different angles via educational conversations. Socrates claimed that the ideal way to teach philosophy is to have a one to one conversation, so one can raise...

Morality Plato The Republic

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Descartes Vs Locke: The Opposing Arguments on The Origin of Innate Ideas

3 pages / 1415 words

Philosophers over the years have written and evaluated numerous topics in philosophy. Occasionally, these scholars concede to their ideas and sometimes disagree with each other’s thought. Two scholars had distinctive ideas about where innate ideas originate from and how we get these sorts of ideas....

John Locke Rene Descartes

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A Biography of John Locke, an English Philosopher

2 pages / 850 words

Introduction John Locke was born on August 29th, 1632, in Wrington, England. He was raised by two Puritan parents: Agnes Keen and John Locke Sr. His father was a lawyer and had to raise Locke by himself after Keen died during childbirth. By age 20,...

John Locke

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The Philosophical Impact of Plato's Allegory of The Cave on My Perception

3 pages / 1586 words

From the time we are born, our minds are shaped by the environment in which we interact and are taught to view life in a certain way. We are limited by controlling forces that result from what we learn generally and from our parents, siblings,...

Allegory of The Cave Plato

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A Study of Ancient Greece Using Plato's Allegory of The Cave

2 pages / 1015 words

Philosophy dwells on ideas and theories that tend to surpass the thoughts of human perception and the nature of reality. An idea may be perceived idealistic rather than based on knowledge. The following quote, “And now, I said, let me show in a figure how...

Allegory of The Cave Plato

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An Aristotelian Tragedy in The Mayor of Casterbridge

2 pages / 968 words

The Major of Casterbridge Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers of Ancient Greece. His analysis of the ideal form of tragic plays has become a guideline for later playwrights in Western Civilization. The most important element of Aristotelian tragedy is the experience of catharsis...

Aristotle The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Mortality and Reasoning in Plato's Theories as Well as The Movie Artificial Intelligence

1 page / 406 words

When examining the movie A.I. or “Artificial Intelligence”, the audience is subjected to the questions “What is considered life?” or “Do we know what life is?”. Although this movie is considered science fiction, A.I. is an actual concept and practice that is being implemented on...

Film Analysis Plato Symposium