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Aspects Of Life Knowledge And Understanding
862 wordsThe Republic by Plato Throughout history, Plato has been conceived as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. His many theories have made us delve deep into our minds for new knowledge and understanding. He is looked up to by many all over the world in present day as well as in history. However, not even Plato is perfect. It is believed by many that there are faults with some aspects of his society. Many believe that his idea of a "utopian society" is far-fetched and unattainable. Although...
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Ideal State Three Parts
1,197 wordsEven after thousands of years Plato and Socrates teachings are as valid in today communities as it was in their times. Plato left us a blueprint etch in stone in becoming an idealistic human being and righteous community. Through Crito, Apology, and the Republic, Plato reveals that even though the unjust ideals may be enticing it will bring a just happiness. In book VII of The Republic, Socrates speaks with Glaucon about the analogy of "The Cave." This analogy represents humanity as being ignora...
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Believed That Man Principle Of Justice
2,053 wordsPlato was a philosopher in the time of the distinguished Greek philosophers. He wrote a book entitled The Republic in which he explains some of his philosophy on subjects ranging from education to government. The Republic discusses the nature of justice and the institutions of society. In some ways it is idealistic in that it describes Plato's ideal society. But it also deals with human knowledge, the purpose and composition of education, and the nature of science. The principle of justice is th...
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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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Plato And Bellamy Utopias The Root Of Dischord
1,256 wordsBoth Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Plato's Republic portray what each author believes to be the perfect society in which to live. They talk about both the workings of and ways to possibly achieve the perfect government. A Utopia is what we call these ideologically inventions. Traditionally, a Utopia is more of an ideological goal than any kind of practical plan. Plato and Bellamy however, from what I have heard believed their visions to be very achievable. Attempting to create an image o...
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Allegory Of The Cave True Knowledge
1,733 wordsAs I walked through the Professor Einsteins massive laboratory I remembered how lucky I was to be his assistant. At the back of Einsteins laboratory was a special top secret room that I had never been allowed access to. The professor was meeting the president and wouldnt be back until Thursday so Id be safe checking it out just this once. I opened the door and was disappointed to only find a small table with a large book laying open on top. I took a closer look and the only words the book contai...
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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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System Of Education Wanted To Find
1,174 wordsIt is necessary to mention something about Plato's general theory in order to understand him very well. First of all Plato's Republic is about a method of doing political philosophy. It is a systematic sustained treat ence of issues, issues of just society, issues about state, issues about individual. These are all public things. He wanted to find an ultimate meaning of all these things; why they exist, how they should exist. He wanted to find absolute answer for these. So in this sense Plato's ...
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Future Society B C
847 wordsSocrates wrote nothing himself. What we know of him comes from the writings of two of his closest friends, Xenophon and Plato. Although Xenophon (c. 430 -c. 354 B. C. ) did write four short portraits of Socrates, it is almost to Plato alone that we know anything of Socrates. Plato (c. 427 - 347 B. C. ) came from a family of ariston, served in the Peloponnesian War, and was perhaps Socrates' most famous student. He was twenty-eight years old when Socrates was put to death. At the age of forty, Pl...
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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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Point Of View Plato Aristotle
1,729 wordsPlato vs. Aristotle Comparison of two different notions of Form in the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. The philosopher Plato was the first to state about uniform, circular, completely correct movement of celestial bodies. In his works we meet for the first time the planets named after the gods completely conterminous with Babylon. Plato was the first to formulate a problem for mathematicians: to find by means of what uniform and correct circular movements it is possible to rescue the phenom...
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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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Plato Believes Plato Republic
905 wordsIn Plato s Republic, he tries to develop a utopia for mankind. He utilizes conversation amongst people within in his book as a vehicle for larger and more serious topics to be discussed. One of the most important propositions made in these discussions is when Socrates and Glaucon are deliberating on the issue of censorship and its necessity in the beginning of Book III. Plato leads me to believe that censorship is a necessary evil that must exist to protect the city as a whole. The question aris...
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Brave New World Plato
1,787 wordsLiterary Utopian Societies? The 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 ...
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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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Locke Machiavelli
2,042 wordsJohn Locke and Niccol&# 1091; Machiavelli are political philosophers writing in two different lands and two different times. Locke? s 17 th century England was on the verge of civil war and Machiavelli? s 15 th century Italy was on the verge of invasion. Yet, students and political philosophers still enthusiastically read and debate their works today. What is it that draws readers to these works? Why, after three hundred years, do we still read Two Treatises on Government, Discourses on Livy, an...
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17 Th Century 20 Th Century
4,587 wordsPhilosophy is the oldest form of systematic, scholarly inquiry. The name comes from the Greek philosophy, lover of wisdom. The term, however, has acquired several related meanings: (1) the study of the truths or principles underlying all knowledge, being, and reality; (2) a particular system of philosophical doctrine; (3) the critical evaluation of such fundamental doctrines; (4) the study of the principles of a particular branch of knowledge; (5) a system of principles for guidance in practical...
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Analogies And Metaphors Deductive Logic Plato
557 wordsMany works of literature provide responses to much debated topics. Opinions are brought forth by means of rhetorical devices and supported by some type of accepted truth. In two such pieces, The Republic by Plato and A Defense of Poetry by Shelley, Plato expresses a belief about poetry that Shelley disagrees with and responds to. Through rhetorical devices such as metaphors and symbolism and the use of deductive logic and Socratic writing, Plato provides a strong, very supported argument while S...
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Oxford Oxford University Kind Of Life
2,628 wordsIn his works, Plato writes about truth, justice, and reality in full detail. His ideas are greatly deep and persuasively argued. It is from him that all western philosophy is a footnote. He describes his view in a series of numerous dialogues. For my report, I have chosen four of his works to study, which I think were his most important. The Republic is a dialogue composed of 10 books. The theme in its entirety is justice. The characters of the dialogue are Socrates, who is the narrator; Glaucon...
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Glaucon Sarcastic Remark Pursuing His Own Self Interest City
1,547 wordsThe City of Swine By: When one looks at why Plato would have included Glaucon s sarcastic remark of calling the first city a city of swine (372 d) in his dialogue the Republic of Plato, one must understand what it is that Glaucon was talking about. To understand what Glaucon s sarcastic remark meant; and how important it was, is because there had to be more to what Plato was writing about. And that Glaucon s remark helped lead Plato s writings right into what followed. For I m sure to assume tha...
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