Characteristics of Personhood Rationality The ability to reason is seen as being one of the defining characteristics of personhood. Rationality can be summarised in our ability to make considered choices and decisions at a higher intellectual level. Rationality is illustrated in our ability to justify our thoughts and actions through reason‚ scaled to emotional or practical variables. Aristotle considered that the thought-processes that precede our actions are pivotal to personhood. Such thought-processes
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O.C #2-Machiavelli Though often presented as two ideological opposites‚ personally I find there to be a lot more similarities between Plato and Machiavelli than usually acknowledged. Obviously there are some sharp contrasts. If one examines the excerpts from Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and Plato’s “The Republic”‚ it’s easy to conclude that Plato believed it to be essential for a government leader to be just‚ good‚ and free from corruption. Whereas Machiavelli’s ideal ruler is less concerned
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that includes the entire polis‚ not just its factioneers. To provide a broader context for the Aristotelian material‚ analyzation of Thucydides’ description of the advanced stages of stasis at Kerkyra is essential. There are five generic themes characteristic of stasis‚ including the rhetorical replacement of common values by values of private interest‚ the use of terror and fraud to satisfy desires for honor (philotimia) and unfair gain (pleonexia)‚ and the unfettered passions that generally rule
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Philosophies of Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle The philosophies of Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle had different points of-view but they were also similar in some ways. For example‚ all three philosophers had their own thoughts on the subject of justice and government. Socrates belief on this matter was that democracy was an unwise form of government. He thought that the electing of the people was unfair justice. Plato had some of the same beliefs. He believed that government should only have
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Philosophers are more knowledgeable and are able to grasp concepts that others would find difficult to understand. Plato uses this fact to support his notion that they are the only ones supposed to rule Kallipolis because within the years they have spent therein‚ they have grasped a lot more information than any other citizen. According to Plato‚ philosophers should rule the city of Kallipolis because they know the city well‚ they are more likely to lead for the better of the city‚ they believe in
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John Greavu Professor Joan Tronto POL 1201 11 November 2013 Plato and John Stuart Mill: Valuations of Individual Well-Being with Regards to Social Standing In response to prompt #1: Mill and Plato share a belief in something like “higher pleasures.” As a result‚ despite their great differences‚ both are really trying to do the same thing. Both advocate for a society that allows elites to pursue their own interests‚ at the expense of others. The result is that both are trying to create a society
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1) The idea that all knowledge is attained through experience was referred to as _____ by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. a) Philosophical empiricism b) Structuralism c) Foundationalism d) Functionalism 2) _____ believed that the body was made up of material substances and the mind was made up of immaterial or spiritual substances. a) Descartes b) Hobbes c) Plato d) Freud 3) Sam’s daughter starts to hit other children while at the playground. Her daughter has never been exposed to violence
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According to Plato a property that is abstract or quality is considered a form; if you were to take a property of a certain object and separate the property from the object‚ that itself would contemplate a form. A basketball could be taken for example here where you can take the roundness of the object being the basketball in this case and separate the roundness from all of the other properties the basketball has like the weight and the color‚ focusing only of the roundness would be the form of
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Although the Philosopher‚ Aristotle‚ was one of Plato’s brightest students in his academy‚ their views weren’t always exactly the same‚ though they were somewhat similar. After his Professor‚ Plato‚ passed away‚ Aristotle followed in his footsteps and started his own school called the Lyceum. In his school‚ one of the things Aristotle taught was one that he and Plato had slight mixed view about‚ which was Rhetoric. Plato’s and Aristotle’s views on rhetoric are similar but have slight differences
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Forum 2: Plato - Holiness and Deities’ Approval My initial view on Plato’s argument that what is holy and what is approved by the gods are not the same‚ is that this argument is convincing. I will also‚ show that Euthyphro would not have given any reasonable response to the argument in response to the second question and final part of the assignment‚ which requires if we can think of any arguments Euthyphro could have made and what his response would have been. However‚ before I delve fully into
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