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Greek Philosopher Atlantic Ocean
1,022 wordsThesis Statement: Many world renowned historical philosophers, explorers, and premonition ists have made many credible theories about the lost continent which have historical documentation to make them believable. IV. Atlantis and the Earths Shifting Crust Do you believe in the lost continent of Atlantis? Or do you believe that it is merely a fairy tale for a misrepresentation in history? Many of these glitches in history have been exploited as absurd accounts of a lost continent once destroyed....
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Hundreds Of Years Ago Ultimate Goal
1,006 wordsPrior to a look at Aristotle's ethics, I feel it is important to look at the man and his background. Aristotle, an Ionian, was born in Stagira, a Greek town on the northwest shores of the Aegean Sea in 384 B. C. At the age of eighteen he entered Plato's school called the Academy, staying there for nearly twenty years. Plato was quick to realize Aristotle's abilities and called him the Academy's "brightest and most learned student." While there he wrote "popular writings" for general discussion o...
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True Reality Real World
610 wordsAfter reading Plato's cave several times, I learned that every time I read it I gained a completely different interpretation. You can relate all of the different symbols to any aspect of life, and still have a clear understanding of what Plato is talking about. My first interpretation of the cave was, the world as the cave. The world is a cave to most of society. We are chained to the wall, because we only know what we have been taught. We havent had the urge or desire to venture out into the wo...
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Minoan Civilization Atlantic Ocean
1,031 wordsBrief Description of the story of Atlantis: Did the lost continent of Atlantis really exist or is the account of the island paradise destroyed just a moral tale? the answer of this Question is still mystical. It story of Atlantis was first told by the Greek Philosopher Plato as a parable to show how heaven punishes those who worship false Gods. But at the same time he hints that the story is true, the memory of a terrible cataclysm passed down by word of mouth for hundreds of years. Myth or real...
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State Of Ignorance Socratic Dialogues Socrates
1,154 words... nt, this divinity asserts the futility of human knowledge. Socrates could not expect for his interlocutor to be capable of true definition, as prophecy declares his superiority - through the acknowledgement of ignorance - regarding wisdom. Revealing Euthyphro's inability to define holiness is, therefore, necessarily the objective. The accepted Athenian views are also called upon to aid the discussion. Initially, it is a banausic or common belief that Euthyphro rejects concerning the prosecut...
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Short Lived Public Image
1,401 wordsAt the time of Socrates' trial in 399 BC, Athens was still badly shaken by it's unstable political and military past. The surrender at the Battle of Aegospotami marked the loss of the Peloponnesian war to Sparta, a long and hard fought war which waged from 432 - 404 BC. Earlier in 411 BC a group of discontent Athenians led by Antiphon, Critias and Charmides briefly overthrew Athens democracy and established an oligarchy. While it only lasted until 410 BC, it was still fresh in the memory of Athe...
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Plato Republic Political Power
1,166 words... ng to Cephalus does not generate sufficient understanding of justice. As Cephalus departs from the argumentative scene and hands over the argument to Polemarchus whose view is that justice is to render to each his due. Polemarchus claims that justice consists of benefitting ones friends and harming ones enemies. Polemarchus narrows his distinction to friends and enemies. If justice depends on whether one is a friend or an enemy than it is uncertain how that distinction will be made. The judg...
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Allegory Of The Cave Oedipus The King
737 wordsIn Sophocles play, Oedipus, the King, there are various instances where Oedipus tries to escape his destinyenlightenmentonly to discover the truth that he cannot. Similarly, in Plato's Allegory of the Cave the prisoner travails to understand and adjust to his newly visited environment. In both works, the men first had to realize their ignorance before they could begin to acquire knowledge and true understanding of the complexities of the human condition. Specifically, in Oedipus, the King, it wa...
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Artificial Intelligence Real World
1,654 wordster> 2001 by Daniel du Prie Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow, 1996) Youve been living in a dream world Neo. This, is the world, as it exists today: Welcome to the desert of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix) From Plato's "Charmides" to the Wachowski brothers "The Matrix" (1999), there is a tradition of writing in Western literature, which thinks about and imagines the city as either a utopia or a dystopia, or both. ...
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Relativism Versus Ethical Absolutism
667 wordsRelativism is the denial of any absolute or objective values (truth, moral goodness, beauty, etc. ) and the affirmation of the individual, community or culture as the source of values. Absolutism is the view that values (truth, beauty, and / or moral goodness) are independent of human opinion and have a common or universal application. The absolutist's view is that some statements are "objectively true, " that is, true independent of whether anybody recognizes their truth. Objectivism is another...
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Greek Society Young Men
1,433 words"Lysis, " written by Plato in approximately 380 BCE (the exact year is unknown) is an in depth look, through the teachings of Socrates, at the nature of friendship, desire, usefulness and personal identity. This work is relevant to our course about childhood because the characters in the dialogue that Socrates is speaking with are youths. Socrates reveals through his teachings many of the ancient attitudes towards different aspects of "childhood. " It is quite apparent that this outlook on child...
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Plato Apology Greek Society
1,506 wordsAristophanes denounces the importance of the gods' influence on the actions of mortals. In the usual tragedy, the gods play an extremely important role towards the actions of the mortal characters. Through fear of the alternative and examples of the past, Athenians carried out their everyday lives under the guidance of the gods' wishes. Aristophanes challenges the audience, and Greek culture as a whole, by offering a different view on the answers and directions of life, than that of the gods. He...
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Perception Of Reality Piece Of Paper
1,532 wordsHegel Hegel's characteristics of reality have great impact upon the development of the philosophical thinking of an individual. He expressed his perception of reality in many of his outstanding philosophical tractate's. German Idealist Hegel was born in Stuttgart on August 27, 1770, which is now part of Germany. Hegel was the son of a revenue officer with the civil service. He studied the Greek and Roman classics while attending the Stuttgart preparatory school. His father wanted and encouraged ...
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Philosophy Greek Philosophy Greek Philosophy World
906 wordsPhilosophy, Greek Philosophy Greek Philosophy Philosophy, the use of reason and argument in seeking truth and knowledge of reality. Throughout history man has searched for the origins of his existence, both on an outward and inward level, seeking truth and understanding of his world. The first culture to actively explore this idea of philosophy was the Greeks. Because their civilization placed less emphasis on religion and the masses didnt have to constantly answer to religious figures man had t...
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Resistance To Change Quot Reality
1,512 wordsGoing to the movies is fun. You get your candy and your drink and are taken away into a fictional world for two or three hours, then leave the theater and get back to reality. But is what youre going back to really reality? Plato said no. In the " Allegory of the Cave" (chapter XXV) in the The Republic he proposes that we all live like people in a movie theater, only he uses prisoners in a cave to illustrate the situation. He creates an image of prisoners, chained down in a cave, so al...
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Jack London Young Man
954 wordsRough Draft I think that every book falls into one of a few different catagories. It either sucks, is entertaining, or changes your perspective. Martin Eden ranks in the highest of all posible catagories for changing my perspective. I tried to read Jack London on a number of occasions and just couldnt get into him. His stories would rate as entertaining at best. I dont know why I picked up Martin Eden, but will forever be grateful to the forgotten soul who recommended it. Martin Eden is differen...
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Plato The Athenian One
441 wordsParts of what follows below were actually painful to write. However, because of the ongoing misinformation campaigns launched by Plato the Athenian and his buddies, I feel it is my duty to write this. Before examining the present situation, however, it is important that I purge the darkness from Plato's heart. One of his slaves once said, Things have never been better. Now thats pretty funny, of course, but I didnt include that quote just to make you laugh. I included it to convince you that if ...
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Efficient Cause Final Cause
1,070 wordsAristotle was born in 384 BC and lived until 322 BC. He was a Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato being considered the most famous of ancient philosophers. He was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court. When he was 17, he went to Athens to study at Plato's Academy. He stayed for about 20 years, as a student and then as a teacher. When Plato died in 347 BC, Aristotle moved to Assos, a city in Asia Minor, where a friend of his named Hermias was ...
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Kind Of Thing Socrates Plato
362 wordsPlato vs Socrates Plato was one of the most influential and significant philosophers throughout the ancient and modern world. Through his rich blood line and his years of studying under Socrates, Plato was able to develop various theories, such as the Theory of Knowledge and The Forms. Plato's begining's originated from Socrates, when main focus was concentrating on what makes something what it is, and how one could take care of their soul in order to lead a good life. Later Socrates was found g...
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View Of Reality Plato Allegory
395 words1. Plato's Allegory of the Caves. 2. In Book VII of The Republic, Plato tells a story entitled The Allegory of the Caves. In this story he describes a dark underground cave where a group of people are sitting in one long row with their backs to the caves entrance. Bound to their chairs since childhood, all the humans can see is the distant cave wall in front of them with shadows being displayed. Their view of reality is solely based upon this rather limited view of moving shadows. This is what i...
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