Briefly explain what Glaucon’s challenge is to Socrates at the start of Book II of the Republic, and then briefly explain how Socrates’s analogy with bodily health at the end of Book IV of the Republic is supposed to respond to that challenge.

Paper Assignment 2: Due Fri 13 Nov 4 pages, 12pt font, double spaced, 1 inch margins (5 pages OK; 6 too many) The audience is the same as before: a friend who doesn’t know any philosophy. Make sure to clearly explain key terms; give examples wherever possible; offer textual support for your interpretive claims; acknowledge your sources; and consider reasonable […]

write an essay that argues whether Plato (or Socrates) is correct in his view that men and women are essentially the same.

Please read Book V(http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.6.v.html). My professor said that “I would like you to write an essay in which you tell me whether you think Plato (or Socrates) is correct in his view that men and women are essentially the same. It doesn’t matter to me what your position on this issue is. The important thing is that you have a […]

Discuss social contract theory presented by Socrates compared to John Locke and how it relates to Criminal Justice.

For the final project, I would like to discuss social contract theory presented by Socrates compared to John Locke and how it relates to Criminal Justice. Locke’s social contract theory emphasized the rights of human beings to secure their safety by living in an ordered society held together by basic rules. Today this theory would relate to the Criminal Justice […]