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    Thucydides vs Plato

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    Compare and contrast Thucydides’ and Socrates’ analyses of the fate of Athenian democracy in war‚ of why the Athenians went to war‚ and of how and why they failed. The Peloponnesian War was the turning point in Athenian hegemony in Ancient Greece. It was fought in 431 B.C. between the Delian League‚ led by Athens‚ and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. According to Thucydides‚ Athens’ imposing hegemonic status and its overwhelming quest for more power made the Peloponnesian War and Athens’s

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    Plato vs Machiavelli

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    Of the many disparities between Plato and Machiavelli‚ the distinction of virtue versus virtu sticks out like a sore thumb. Virtue was the political bases for Plato: All men should behave virtuously at all times. Whereas Machiavelli believed virtu was the basis for political prowess. What was best for the state as a whole was the main concern‚ and the ends always justified the means. Plato’s object was the creation of a utopian society--a civilization that abhorred war and centered itself upon

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    Plato and the Affect of Art and Poetry In the Republic of Plato‚ the famous philosopher that followed in the footsteps of SocratesPlato created the ideal society in which would only be successful if its citizens were "just." Every being in his Republic has a certain telos‚ or destiny in life‚ which must be followed in order for the Polis to thrive. Their actions are guided by their desire to discover and attain knowledge of the absolute truth or true "form." These forms are an aspect of reality

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    Timaeus Vs Plato

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    existence before the Creator’s universe was. According to Plato‚ this sphere was moving disorderly‚ a clear indication it was not the organized and rational model. Timaeus later goes on to explain the creation of the universe as a sphere‚ with no limbs or organs‚ and created from the four elements so it is unlikely that the “original” sphere became the universe. This disordered visible sphere was not mentioned except for near the beginning of the

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    Education in Confucius and Plato After long time of their death we still remember these philosophers – Plato and Confucius. We know Plato by his work “Republic”. Plato was born in Ancient Greece in 428. And Confucius was born in 551 in Ancient China. He tried to serve to rulers‚ often he was criticized. He was persecuted but‚ nevertheless‚ was famed by his wisdom. Confucius had a lot of followers and died in 479. He created Analects‚ which for more then 2 thousand years became ideological

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    Plato and Moral Authority

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    judgments? In Plato’s Apology‚ what constitutes as a sin or a crime? Socrates was accused of being a “doer of evil‚ and a corrupter of the youth‚ and he does not believe in the gods of the state‚ and has other divinities of his own” (Apology 1). These are all things that Meletus has brought Socrates to court for. These are all these that are considered to be a crime to Meletus and the Athenians throughout Apology‚ as Socrates proves this by continuously taking each item he is accused of and asking

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    platos theory of justice

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    sense of what justice is. Plato offers two main analogies to examine the definition of justice. The division of parts in the soul as well as the parts of the state; We would now examine the structure of the soul. The soul is divided into three parts‚ the appetitive‚ spirited and the rational.  By the account of the parts of the soul we are shown how a soul has different wills‚ yet in order for a soul to stay in the just path it must have some sort of hierarchy. Plato describes the spirited part

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    aristotle vs. plato

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    Aristotle VS. Plato Epistemology‚ “theory of knowledge”‚ is the logic of getting to the metaphysics. Ontology‚ “theory of being”‚ is the very distinct part of metaphysics‚ where definitional divisions appear even larger than in metaphysics itself. “Ontos”‚ a Greek word‚ which means “being” and “episteme”‚ is a Greek word‚ which means “knowledge” of the highest‚ most reliable and certain kind. For Plato‚ there exist two worlds: the ever changing material world and the eternal world of Forms

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    Aristotle vs Plato

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    earliest thinkers of our time are Plato‚ and his most famous pupil‚ Aristotle. Soon after Plato’s teachings‚ Aristotle criticized his claims and independently became a thinker on his own. These philosophers viewed metaphysics differently‚ and they approached the idea of reality in two opposing ways. Plato’s Theory of Forms was a concept that was defined in a different way by Aristotle. They both believed in “forms” but approached this idea differently. Plato felt that there are two different levels

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    philosophy of Socrates’. As well it teaches us the idea of asking questions and probing for answers when we don’t understand so we can uncover the truth and learn rather than thinking we know and being ignorant. The intention here is to describe the philosophy of Socrates’ and use what I’ve learned from his ideas to present my own beliefs on what philosophy is and relate it to my personal life. The start of the essay will be devoted to deciphering the ethics and ideals of Socrates’ philosophy and

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