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Brave New World Mores Utopia
1,746 wordsThe vision of one century is often the reality of the next (Nelson 108). Throughout time, great minds have constructed their own visions of utopia. Through the study of utopias, one finds that these perfect societies have many flaws. For example, most utopias tend to have an authoritarian nature (Manuel 3). Also, another obvious imperfection found in the majority of utopias is that of a faulty social class system (Thomas 94). But one must realized that the flaws found in utopian societies serve ...
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Gale Research Man Named
1,242 wordsThroughout history there have been many philosophers that have made great impacts on the students for many years. One philosopher in particular that has made a tremendous impact on the youth of the world is a man named Plato. Plato is one of the worlds most famous writers, and is still being taught to this day. People ask why this man is so important and why he should be still studied today when he is something of the past; well I will help them see in my paper just why he is so important to thi...
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2000 Years Ago Thousands Of Years
1,175 words2000 years ago, Plato, one of the forefathers of Western civilization, materialized the foundational ideas on reflective thinking in the Allegory of the Cave, which stemmed from the Republic. In his essay, he symbolically shows the stages and value of reaching a higher level of thinking. Being able to reflectively think is so important, it is still being discussed in our modern times. In the essay How do we know? Why do we Believe? , by Patricia King, the stages of thinking are outlined in order...
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Knowledge And Truth Santa Claus
1,974 wordsRather than the practical pursuit we are accustomed to, for Plato, Politics is an intellectual faculty. Governance by non-philosophers is to be governed by opinions, beliefs and self-interest; in contrast the philosopher ruler will govern with virtue and justice with no hidden agenda. The philosopher is in love, in love with learning, knowledge and truth. It is important to make a distinction here between the acquisition of knowledge and the acquisition of truth, because knowledge is not necessa...
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Lack Of Trust Catholic Priests
1,275 wordsBook V of The Republic finds Socrates explaining the practical details necessary in the creation of an ideal polis. He proposes a system for population control and human eugenics based on a lottery of sorts which will determine who will mate with whom and when. The lottery is "rigged" by the rulers in order that the best of the "herd" will mate much more frequently than others. However, only the rulers of this society will know the lottery is rigged. This system will presumably assure that child...
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Plato Symposium On Love
1,448 wordsPlato's symposium on love Of all philosophical writings that have been proposed for examination, Plato's Symposium appears to be the most relevant. Many people associate Plato with several doctrines advocated by him in his works. From his standpoint, everything is subordinated to the scale of ranks. The idea of love is high on the list. To prove correctness of my proposition, Ill cite several lines from Symposium and examine Plato's philosophical interpretation of love. Gods do not make direct c...
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Oxford Oxford University Part Of The Soul
2,196 wordsPlato's View of Justice There is a natural progression from Plato's theory of Forms to his philosophy of ethics. If one can be deceived by appearances in the natural physical world, one can be equally deceived by appearances in the moral realm. The kind of knowledge that helps one to distinguish between shadows, reflections, and real objects in the visible world is just the kind of knowledge that we need to discriminate between the shadows and reflections of the genuinely good life. Plato believ...
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20 Th Century Male And Female
1,952 words... is no distinction between strangers and citizens (563 a) - calling into question the very structure of a polis that cannot identify its own citizens. Everything (one) blends into the other. We can no more tell moderation from cowardice than we can tell a father from a son, a teacher from a student, or a citizen from a noncitizen. In contemporary understandings, the absence of hierarchy translates into equality, but that is too simple a translation for what occurs in the Republic; equality en...
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Plato Believes Rational Explanation
1,784 wordsPlato's View in Human Knowledge Plato presents three different views about knowledge in Meno, Republic, and Theaetetus. In Menos case, Plato believes knowledge as something innate in us when we are born; in his later view, in Republic, Plato believes we perceive things and gain knowledge; and from the last view, in Theaetetus, Plato believes knowledge is the combination of a true opinion and a rational opinion. Strangely enough, Plato's views in Meno, Republic, and Theaetetus are similar, regard...
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Believed That Man Plato And Aristotle
983 wordsSocrates, Greek Philosophers Greek Philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle had virtually the same beliefs about mans relation to the State, although Plato's political theory of the State was more rational than Socrates or Aristotle's. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle all believed that man was not self-sufficient, they believed man would be most happy living in a State. They also believed that all men wanted to live the truly good life where they could be in tune with the truth and achieve their ...
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Epic Poems Southern Baptist
1,610 wordsPlato attacks poetry on two main fronts, claims to knowledge and as imitations. The poet as Plato knew him was a religious being, who was divinely inspired by the muse. It is therefore futile to attempt an analysis of the modern poet in comparison with the mythic poet. Instead, we must search our society to find a group which best resembles the mythic poet. And then, explore whether Plato's attacks still holds true against are new modern foe of philosophy, if any foe exist at all. The mythic poe...
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Views On Censorship Hands Of Children Plato
1,063 wordsPlato's three main objections to poetry are that poetry is not ethical, philosophical or pragmatic. It is not ethical because it promotes undesirable passions, it is not philosophical because it does not provide true knowledge, and it is not pragmatic because it is inferior to the practical arts and therefore has no educational value. Plato then makes a challenge to poets to defend themselves against his criticisms. Ironically it was Plato's most famous student, Aristotle, who was the first theo...
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Perfect State Lead One
1,980 wordsOh, Divine Poetry In his Republic, Plato seems to condemn art, especially written art, as evil and does not allow its presence in his ideal polis. Plato writes that art has the power to corrupt and teach its audience ignoble ways. He writes that it can only ever be an imitation of reality and thus is far from the true and the Good. Interestingly, however, in his Phaedrus, Plato seems to speak opposite this view of art as evil. In fact, he proclaims inspiration by the Muses divine actually closer...
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End Of His Life Theory Of Forms
1,819 wordsPlato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens, Greece. When he was a child his father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man Plato was always interested in political leadership and eventually became a disciple of Socrates. He followed his philosophy and his dialectical style, which is believed to be the search for truth through questions, answers, and additional questions. After witnessing...
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Platonic Love Political Power
2,789 wordsTitle 1: Preparing for the ultimate trial On their arrival the souls had to go straight before Lachesis. And an interpreter? . took from the lap of Lachesis a number of lots and patterns of life and? proclaimed: This is the word of Lachesis maiden daughter of Necessity. Souls of a day, here you must begin another round of mortal life whose end is death? Then (he) set before them? . different patterns of life, far more in number than the souls who were to choose them? Plato, The Republic, Part 11...
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Plato Believes Political Theories
1,464 wordsPlato: The Grandfather of Democracy The history and the evolution of what we know as law, has developed out of many different viewpoints and philosophies. It has been the result of the operational and manipulative aspects of public affairs, and also seems to be the creation of different philosophical systems. There have been many that have been innovators in this area of thought from political leaders and dictators, to others who were simple political idealists and philosophers. Through the wisd...
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