Essays on Plato

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...

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...

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...

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...

As both ancient and modern philosophers continue to challenge the ideas of everyday thought, attention continues to be brought to the truth and validity of these theories. As Plato and Socrates try to navigate in a world full of uncertainty their thoughts are consistently challenged...

One of Plato’s acclaimed “Five Dialogues” is comprised of a conversation the he had with Meno regarding virtue. When Socrates asked Meno what virtue means to him, he replied to him saying that the definition of virtue varies between different groups. For instance, he says...

Plato’s cave story is a dialogue about perception and people rejecting reality due to ignorance. To demonstrate it, there exists a cave with people bound and tied in such a way that they are able to look only in one direction, towards a wall in...

Plato’s Republic lays out the perfect model society by developing a concept he calls the theory of forms. He holds that concepts like justice, goodness, and happiness — which are the tenets of the ideal city-state — can only be understood through a deeper understanding...

In this essay, I will argue the question through the character of Socrates in Plato’s Book V from the Republic, how he chooses to stand on the base of having an efficient and prospers republic and the arguments he uses to reach that conclusion. To...