Essays on Philosophical Works

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Religion, Utopia, and The Concept of Perfection in Allegory of The Cave by Plato and a Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

2 pages / 932 words

In today’s world, religion is one of the most important things that influence the way a person lives their life. Whether it’s waiting until marriage for sexual relations or deciding to not murder that coworker who always steals lunches, many people have their own religion...

Allegory of The Cave Civil Disobedience Utopia

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A Comparison of Themes in The Matrix and Allegory of The Cave

2 pages / 799 words

One of the major themes that is noticeable in the Matrix is “being as such”. When considering the Matrix, Neo lives in complete delusion, a prisoner of artificial intelligence with no real control or perception of reality. He believes he is living in the city,...

Allegory of The Cave The Matrix

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A Theoretical Or Intellectual Interpretation of a ‘knowledge’ Phenomenon

3 pages / 1589 words

“The quality of knowledge produced by an academic discipline is directly proportional to the duration of historical development of that discipline.” Explore this claim with reference to two disciplines. ‘Knowledge’ implies the awareness of an individual to a theoretical or intellectual interpretation of a phenomenon....

Knowledge Meno

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The Materiality of Stone: Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology

2 pages / 1126 words

The Materiality of Stone is the third in a series of books by Tilley which deal with landscape, phenomenology and experience. Volume one, A phenomenology of landscape (1994), was arguably one of the most important books of the 1990s, and inspired a whole generation of...

Meno

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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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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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Zombies Illustrating Phenomenons from Human Societies

1 page / 378 words

The author describes the occurrence of Zombies in movies, and through his description, the author’s perception of Zombies is expressed. However much the Zombies are horrific creatures that are merciless, they also have a role of illustrating some phenomenon in human society. Made-to-order essay as...

Meno Zombie

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Osmosis as a Phenomenon in The Life-preserving Functions

2 pages / 794 words

Osmosis (the transportation of a solvent from a lower concentration to a higher one through a semipermeable membrane) is a fundamental concept in the study of biology providing the primary means by which water is transported into and out of cells. The importance of this...

Meno Osmosis

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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

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Allegory of The Cave, Descartes’ Meditations, and The Truman Show

2 pages / 994 words

In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato asks us to consider that the world we are living is the equivalent of a cave; in order for us to enter into this “sensible realm” of truth and knowledge we must actively pursue these values. In his...

Allegory of The Cave Rene Descartes The Truman Show

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The Cave Man as Illustrated by Steven Millhauser's Collection of Short Fiction and Socrates

1 page / 1588 words

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds” (Albert Einstein). When encountering the inexplicable, people’s visceral reactions often oscillate between fear and awe-nevertheless establishing the subject in terms of “otherness.” Steven Millhauser’s collection of short fiction, The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, explores...

Allegory of The Cave Socrates

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Marxist Ideas in "The Difference Engines" and "The Communist Manifesto"

1 page / 3912 words

The Difference Engine, co­written by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, imagines an alternate historical outcome during the industrial era of Europe in the late 19th century. The book follows three characters with different stories that intertwine respectively with their relation to the Kinotrope cards, a...

Karl Marx Manifesto of The Communist Party Marxism

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Fearing The Unknown: Death in The Apology

3 pages / 1223 words

Novelist Rossiter Worthington Raymond once said, “Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” A horizon, by definition, is no more than the range of one’s knowledge or experience....

Socrates The Apology

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Eliminating Differences: Socrates and Euthyphro

4 pages / 1752 words

Socrates found Euthyphro in the agora and after very brief rapport launched straight into asking the question of what is virtue; in the case of Euthyphro, the specific virtue being discussed is piety. Socrates was able to look at his subjects, including Euthyphro, in such...

Euthyphro Socrates

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Analyzing The Claims of Socrates in The Apology

4 pages / 2027 words

In the Apology, Socrates tries to convince the jurors that, if they kill him, they will only be harming themselves. This argument is part of Socrates’ larger defense of his actions as he seeks to avoid drinking the hemlock. Socrates makes two claims: (1) that...

Socrates The Apology

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"Good" and "God" Concept Comparison

2 pages / 858 words

The central argument in Euthyphro implies that the concept of ‘good’ must be independent of the concept of ‘God’ such that “God must love that which is good because it is good.” Grube argues that the implication of this is that God has no choice...

Euthyphro Plato

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Understanding of Virtue in "Meno"

3 pages / 1438 words

A seemingly excited lad initiates Plato’s Meno. Meno appears to have learned what virtue is and is eager to share this knowledge with the renowned Socrates. Thus, Meno tactically lays out calculated questions to Socrates: “…is virtue something that can be taught? Or does it...

Meno Plato