The relationship between Plato’s conception of the existence of a
soul as compared to the Vedantic view of a soul will be
analysed. Vedanta philosophy holds in agreement with Plato that
there is a magazine of knowledge ...
In this paper, I explore the evidence in the Diogenes tradition on
the issue of theft. A line in Diogenes Laertius suggests that the
Cynic approved of temple theft. However, before that can be
taken as proof, various ...
In my view a philosopher is a person of wisdom who produces a
guide to life, providing us with some tools for dealing with
practical problems and survival issues on at least five adaptation
domains. These are a) ...
Aristotle views the courageous man as someone who endures
and fears the right things, for the right motive, in the right
manner, and at the right time, given that a courageous man feels
and acts according to the merits ...
This paper offers a comparative analysis of the ways in which Plato used
mythical language in order to convey his views on love and politics. For
politics, the myth of the metals in the Republic and of Atlantis in ...
A number of ethical issues and dilemmas are to be found in policing. Police
officers do engage in unethical behaviour which often originates from the
norms of the organisational culture. However, the working in the world ...
The logical role of the paradox is not to state a truth whose
paradoxical nature lies in the difficulty we feel in maintaining it as
true, but rather to state somefhing thaf will cause fo feel as fa/se
something else ...
Every educational research community is infused with the sensibilities of intellectual epochs and movements that anteceded it and that gave rise to it. In the decade approaching the end of the 20th century educational ...
At the previous conference my purpose was to give a rhetorical
interpretation to the sacred geometry of the west façade of the
Parthenon, the best-known of all Greek tempies, the apogee of
Hellenic architecture, built ...
The immensity of the task I undertook, namely, to venture into the philosophy of Plato regarding his views on crime and punishment, only struck me the moment I started researching his relevant works. Therefore, right from ...