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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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Philosopher King Direct Democracy
1,604 words... was perhaps Socrates' most famous student. He was twenty-eight years old when Socrates was put to death. At the age of forty, Plato established a school at Athens for the education of Athenian youth. The Academy, as it was called, remained in existence from 387 B. C. to A. D. 529, when it was closed by Justinian, the Byzantine emperor. Our knowledge of Socrates comes to us from numerous dialogues which Plato wrote after 399. In nearly every dialogue and there are more than thirty that we kno...
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Philosopher King People Vote Democracy
764 wordsGeorge Bernard Shaw once said: Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few, and while I dont have nearly such a bleak outlook on our method of government, Mr. Shaw does hold an iota of truth in his quotation. In a perfect world, where everyone is informed, intelligent, and aware of their system of administration, democracy would work perfectly. In a world where there are different personalities, dissimilar concerns and divergent points of view, democ...
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Women Movement Aristotle
2,297 wordsEpistemology Plato vs. Aristotle In Republic, Plato defines the ideal government to be one that is set up and run by a philosopher king. This person, having a completely just soul, would be able to organize and run a government that was also completely just. Aristotle also believes that this monarchy run by the perfect ruler that Plato describes would be ideal, if it were possible. However, Aristotle doesn? t believe that a perfectly just person exists. On page 81 of The Politics Aristotle says ...
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Plato Liberal Education
2,888 wordsBrand Blanshard, Philosophy Final SUMMARY Brand Blanshard, a respected philosophy professor, published an essay entitled, The Uses of a Liberal Education, which accounts for a few arguments against a liberal education, but stresses the overwhelming advantages to the same education. According to Blanshard, liberal studies are? the sort of studies that are pursued for their own sake rather than for their utility. ? (p. 121). The first step Blanshard takes in analyzing the usefulness of a liberal e...
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Plato And More Wished Shakespeare Tempest Prospero
223 wordsProspero's philosopher lacking Shakespeare Tempest is a window into his idea of a utopia. The island serves as a place much like that of Plato's Republic and Moores Utopia. But, Prospero, the leader of Shakespeare's Tempest is not the same philosopher king that both Moore and Plato wished to rule their respective societies. Prospero lacks the philosophy and the wisdom that both Plato and Moore wanted to be instilled within their leaders. Prospero's treatment of his slave Ariel. Ariel is indebted...
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