Essays on Philosophical Works

Have you ever wondered to yourself what is the reality, truth, or the meaning of life, and exactly how are you so educated about the world? The story, “The Allegory of the Cave” written by Plato, compares the effect of education and the lack of...

Taking Plato’s Allegory of the Cave as an example, it is possible to see many cave concepts today. As in The Allegory of the cave, people can first live in a cave that they only accept as their own reality, and then they can come...

A fundamental question of our existence is what makes a human being a human being? What concretely defines the division between man and all other living creatures. While the answer seems straightforward, the debate of the components of human beings was a controversy between ancient...

Common sense seems to dictate that you should obey the rules of religion no matter what, you can’t even think of questioning them. Yet, this is exactly the kind of behaviour what Plato stands against in the Allegory of the Cave. In the allegory, Glaucon...

Every moment in our daily lives we trust our senses to tell us the truth. We tend to believe what we touch, smell, see, hear, and taste, but do we ever think about the fact that our senses may be lying to us? If we...

In Book X of “The Republic of Plato” by Allan Bloom, Plato utilizes Socrates as his voice to discuss the subject of poetry in his optimal society. While he thinks about gymnastics and music as essential pieces of society, he views poetry as something that...

What if the reality you are used to see is not the real one? How would you feel if you discovered that during your whole life you have been controlled and used as entertainment? The aim of this essay is to compare the film The...

Plato was interested in understanding the nature of the soul. It would seem that he developed various approaches to understand the association the soul the mortal human body. This paper will discuss the Phaedo and the Republic to theories of the soul. In the Phaedo...

Nicomachean Ethics is recognized as Aristotle’s best work regarding ethics. It is assumed to be named after either his son or his father. This is because they are both named Nicomachus. However, the fact that his son was too young while Aristotle came up with...

In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, a series of different ideas contributing to morals and ethics that relate to the ultimate good of human life were discussed. Aristotle breaks the idea of happiness into three major components, pleasure, wealth, and honor. Having said that, the idea of...