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Death Of Socrates King Of Thebes
1,217 wordsWhat is the relation of the state to the individual? Should obedience be paid to the will of the state, or to the justice with which it conflicts? If loyalty is required, is it conditional; necessary only part of the time? And, given that the state and the individual will inevitably disagree on some issues, who suffers in the end? Through their writings, Plato and Sophocles outline two sides of this issue. In Euthyphro, The Apology, and Crito Plato expresses a view of the state as flawed but nec...
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Alexander The Great B C
858 wordsAristotle is a Greek philosopher, scientist, and educator how lived from 384 to 322 B. C... He was considered to be one of the greatest and most influential philosophers in Western culture. He was born in northern Greece on the Macedonia coast in a small town called Stagira. Aristotle came from an upper middle class were his father, Nichomachus, was a court physician to King Amanitas II of Macedonia. This is where Aristotle became associated with the Macedonian court, which influenced him greatl...
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Plato Allegory Of The Cave
920 wordsThe majority of people in school today, and they dont want to be there. School is painful to them. They, the unenlightened, have not seen the light. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners can resemble those who do not thirst for knowledge. They seem to be prisoners in their own world. The small bunch of people in schools today is passionate learners, and they yearn for and covet knowledge. These groups have a thirst to understand and seek truth and are able to comprehend the true value o...
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Cardinal Virtues Four Cardinal
1,397 wordsPlato is one of the greatest philosophers ever. Born in Athens, in 427 BC, and died in 347 BC. Socrates taught him. Socrates not only taught Plato, but was also Plato's best friend. Socrates was put to death in 399 BC, because of his ideas. After Socrates death, Plato devoted his life to philosophy (Plato). In Plato's book The Republic, the main focus is on justice, and trying to define what justice exactly is. In this book Socrates speaks Plato's ideas. Through the Socratic method of trying to ...
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Spiritual Realm Lowest Level
749 words3) Explain the so-called Divided Line. What do the different levels mean? How does this apply to ethics? How does this apply to Knowledge, perception, and / or awareness? Explain in depth and detail. Plato's Divided Line is a model indicating not only levels of knowledge, but basically levels of everything. It is divided into four levels and two sides. The left side consists of ways we know, become aware of, and perceive things, while the right side consists of the objects of knowledge, awarenes...
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Theory Of Forms Allegory Of The Cave
2,126 words... brain. A true philosopher is characterized by his love for the truth. Plato defends his theory of a philosopher making the best king by writing, "a good ruler must have a good character as well as a good mind; he must always be truthful, high-minded and disciplined, and never mean, petty, or cowardly. " A philosopher will satisfy these requirements. For example since the philosopher loves truth he will always be honest. Money or possessions will not matter to him. Thus he will rule for the g...
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Socrates Believes Ideal Republic Justice
1,055 wordsThe Republic by Plato (427 - 347 B. C. ) is a basically an examination of the "Good Life, " or the harmony achieved by applying pure reason and justice. As a typical Plato piece, the book itself is a series of arguments between Socrates, Plato's mentor, and several other theorists. They argue issues concerning the social conditions of an ideal republic, which is chiefly Plato's vision projected through the book's words into our minds' eye. The book contains many ideas that really made sense to m...
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Plato Apology Death Penalty
1,440 words... phones; he is mentioned explicitly shortly after this. While it may seem Aristophanes was maliciously attacking Socrates, credible evidence points to the contrary. The Clouds was an attack on the Sophists, and its plot required somebody to represent the typical Sophist. While Socrates differed in many regards to the Sophists, the public did not make the distinction, and it was they who Aristophanes was writing for. To anybody who knew Socrates personally the portrayal was, as was it was inte...
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Music And Poetry Plato Republic
1,297 wordsPlato's Republic is mainly the discussion of justice versus injustice and the task of defining each. To figure out how to grasp a definition, Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus set to creating a Just City as a model for the individual. Eventually they come to the point of seizing the land of neighbors, discovering the origins of war (373 e). With war as a factor, they must create guardians not only to fight to gain land, but also to protect the city. Socrates states that the work of the guardians...
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Innocence And Beauty Plato Theory
1,429 wordsAmong School Children" is a poem used by Yeats to determine an upcoming generation with the underlying concept that no possible life can be fulfilled. The philosophy controlling this work suggests that perhaps life 'prepares us for what never happens'. Consistent with Yeatsean philosophy, it follows the dogma which states that witlessness brings about innocence, whereas knowledge brings us ballyhoo. Within the realms of acquired wisdom, consciousness produces an anarchic state within the individ...
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Ancient Greece Ancient Greek
945 wordsThe Mask of Apollo" revolves around the adventures of Nikeratos, a young actor who travels the countryside of ancient Greece and Sicily while performing in various plays. In one play, Kadmos by Sophocles the Younger, Nikeratos is required to wear an old mask of Apollo as part of his costume. The mask is fifty years old and is rumored to bring good luck. Nikeratos is impressed with the mask and comes to believe that it possesses special powers. He begins to make reverent gestures toward it as whe...
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2,512 wordsCan morality provide us with a form of self-transcendence? Within the scope of this research, we will elaborate on various philosophers opinions in order to find out whether morality can provide us with a form of self transcendence. Self-transcendence, according to Nietzsche, is the common essence of all moral codes. "Man, " he says, "is something that should be transcended. " (Cohen 126) Self-transcendence is, for him, not only the essence of morality, but most emphatically the essence of man h...
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Youth Of Athens Corrupting The Youth
1,876 wordsSocrates At the elderly age of seventy, Socrates found himself fighting against an indictment of impiety. He was unsuccessful at trial in the year 399 B. C. The charges were corrupting the youth of Athens, not believing in the traditional gods in whom the city believed, and finally, that he believed in other new divinities. In Plato's Apology, Socrates defends himself against these charges. He claims that the jurors opinions are biased because they had probably all seen Aristophanes comedy The C...
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Relationship With His Wife Source Of Knowledge
1,171 wordsPlato's Myth of the Cave and Carvers Cathedral provide insight into parallel words. The protagonists in each story are trapped in a world of ignorance because each is comfortable in the dark, and fearful of what knowledge a light might bring. They are reluctant to venture into unfamiliar territory. Fortunately the narrator in the Cathedral is forced by circumstances to take a risk. This risk leads him into new world of insight and understanding. The narrator in The Cathedral begins the story wit...
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Blind Man Raymond Carver
1,126 wordsCathedral By Raymond Carver In Context Of Cathedral By Raymond Carver In Context Of Plato And Longinus The Seeing Man Plato's The Republic: Book X and Longinus On The Sublime both can be used to outline the end of Raymond Carvers short story, Cathedral. The actions of both men, the blind man and Robert, could be better understood in reference to Plato's idea of the real vs. the imitative and Longinus adaptation of the sublime. Cathedral, at times, seems to be written with these two authors in mi...
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Plato Republic Human Soul
1,349 wordsPlato's Republic: THe Virtues I. The Virtues In Robin Water fields translation of The Republic, Socrates attempts to give a definition of justice. At the end of Book II he began a detailed description of the construction of a good city. The good city is a relation to the human soul, and its four virtues. In the following paper I will discuss the virtues, what they are and where they are found. Also discussed will be the foundation, arrangement, and the interconnectedness with each one. Next disc...
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Peloponnesian War Political Life
422 wordsPlato's Life There is an ancient story (very likely a true one) that Plato was originally named Aristocles, but acquired the nickname Plato (broad or wide in Greek) on account of his broad shoulders. Both of Plato's parents were from distinguished aristocratic families. Plato himself, because of family connections and expectations as well as personal interest, looked forward to a life of political leadership. Besides being born into an illustrious family, Plato was born into an illustrious city....
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Back To England Allegory Of The Cave
1,647 wordsPlato was Plato Plato Philosophies Plato was one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He is recognized all over the world as one of the greatest minds of all time. Knowledge is required under compulsion has not hold on the mind. (Durant 24). Plato's dialogues are the fruit of a rare mind; but the could not have kept their perennial freshness if they had not somehow succeeded in expressing he problems and the convictions that are common to Plato's age and to all later ages. Genius alone is n...
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Death Of Socrates Laws Of The Gods
2,460 wordsWhat Justice Served JUSTICE SERVED What is the relation of the state to the individual? Should obedience be paid to the will of the state, or to the justice with which it conflicts? If loyalty is required, is it conditional; necessary only part of the time? And, given that the state and the individual will inevitably disagree on some issues, who suffers in the end? Through their writings, Plato and Sophocles outline two sides of this issue. In Euthyphro, The Apology, and Crito Plato expresses a ...
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President Clinton B C
881 wordsThe Ring of Gyges The story of the Ring of Gyges is an excerpt from book two of Plato's The Republic, in which Glaucon disagrees with Socrates and insists that people act moral because they lack the power to behave otherwise. In an effort to support his claim, Glaucon recites the tale of Gyges. In this paper, I will include a brief history of Plato, a description of the Ring of Gyges, and discuss how the story may affect our present lives. Plato was born in 429 B. C. in Athens, Greece, to Aristo...
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