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  • In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral ... In the Republic, Plato discusses courage in relation to his three ...
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  • In Book II of The Republic, Plato describes, through Socrates’ dialogue ... *[http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.3.ii.html The Republic] Plato ...
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  • reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ... The theory of anamnesis is a version of theory of innate ideas. Rationalists ...
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  • than a metaphor and often appeals to the imagination, whereas an analogy ... The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ...
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  • Aischines or Æschines), son of Lysanias, of the deme Sphettus of Athens, was ... According to Plato, Aeschines of Sphettus was present at the trial ...
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  • Rationalism is a broad family of positions in epistemology. Perhaps ... The debate around which the rationalism/empiricism distinction revolves ...
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  • In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ... In modern philosophy, the notion of choice has received a wide variety ...
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  • essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books ... old, he read a Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and ...
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  • It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between ... ==Motivation for the distinction== There are both common-sense and ...
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  • Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 - April 17, 485), surnamed "The ... Proclus’ greatest concern was the elevation of the human soul to ...
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  • Plato (c. 428 B.C.E. – c. 348 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and ... While pursuing the subject of justice in the Republic Plato examines ...
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  • The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic ... The Nag Hammadi writings comprise 52 mostly gnostic gospels, apocalypses ...
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  • was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the pillars of the Western tradition ... and opinion. Based upon his conviction about the immortality of the soul, Socrates ...
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  • far as it goes, it does not entirely capture the meaning of the Greek word ... Nietzsche.) Throughout the rest of the Republic, Plato aims to refute this ...
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  • Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting ... pure than what we are aware of. In The Republic, Plato sets out his allegory ...
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  • philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... man "had migrated into agnosticism from the Evangelicalism in which his ...
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  • The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper III) (1671 – ... hand, he studied under and was influenced by the great British empiricist John ...
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  • Alienation refers to the estrangement that occurs in the relation ... Christian theologians have suggested that the three levels of alienation ...
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  • ) (c. 446 B.C.E. – c. 388 B.C.E.) was a Greek dramatist of the Old ... The place and exact date of his birth are unknown, but he was around ...
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  • Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, ... The roots of the tradition of virtue ethics lie in the works of Plato ...
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