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    The Lesson Between The Myth Of The Cave In the story of Plato’s “Myth of the Cave” Plato’s analogy portrays a group of people being imprisoned in a cave and being deceived into thinking that shadows on a cave wall are all reality has to offer them. They have lived their entire life this way‚ and never stepped to the outside world. But if they could manage to somehow escape‚ they would exit out of the cave. For the first time‚ the prisoners would see sunlight and dimensions of such‚ and their mind

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    think Plato and Machiavelli are known as two orominent philosphers.Who brought out the creativity in the political life.Both them have many simiilarites in between them.The first similarity in them is that Plato wants only the best should be the head of the etate in his view socartes are the best suitable for that job where as Machiavelli thinks that the prince should be the head of the state because he think mostly price are capaable of doing many things which other people can not.Both Plato and

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    democracy. I will then assess this critique based on the contemporary model of democracy experienced by Plato. Furthermore‚ I will argue that the critique is still applicable in a modern context by presenting various problems that modern democratic models pose for the critique and then demonstrating how Plato’s argument can overcome them. In order to clearly understand why Plato finds democracy so objectionable it is necessary to understand how democracy worked in an Ancient Greek

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    Descartes and Hume

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    through reason (A is A)‚ by utilizing the senses (paper burns) or by faith (God is all loving). As the period of the Renaissance came to a close‚ the popular paradigm for philosophers shifted from faith to reason and finally settling on the senses. Thinkers began to challenge authorities‚ including great teachers such as Aristotle and Plato‚ and through skepticism the modern world began. The French philosopher‚ René Descartes who implemented reason to find truth‚ as well as the British empiricist David

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    as well as the people in the movie "The Matrix" written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. They are given false images and they accept what their senses are telling them‚ and they believe what they are experiencing is all that really exists. Plato the ancient Greek philosopher wrote "The Allegory of the Cave"‚ to explain the process of enlightenment and what true reality may be. In the movie "The Matrix"‚ Neo (the main character) was born into a world of illusions called the matrix. His true

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    Descartes And Hobbes

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    for the purpose of my paper‚ I will refer to the ideas primarily by the customary Western logic in progress of DescartesPlato and Thomas Hobbes. Human nature originates with a person’s ability to reason which subsequently influences the self. These are the building blocks that shape their norms of conduct as shown in the works of ancient and modern philosophers.

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    Chains of Society Plato’s Allegory of the Cave describes a gathering of subjects who have lived chained to a blank wall of a cave all of their lives. These slaves watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a smoldering fire behind them‚ and begin to give these shadows names. The shadows were the closest thing to reality for the prisoners. Then one person breaks away from the cave‚ realizing that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality‚ this slave begins to form

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    Aristotle‚ whom we will next look at‚ believes the contrary‚ that women are subsidiary to men due to natural characteristics. Let us then look into how both Plato’s and Aristotle’s views of society are constructed by their apparent beliefs of women. For Plato‚ gender is such a minute detail that for the most part it can be neglected when compared to the goal of the society. In the just society‚ women are equal in ability because they have the same opportunity as men. They are given the same upbringing and

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    Man (1664) while alive to avoid being accused of heresy: He voted an unpaired “teardrop‚” the pineal gland‚ as the seat of the soul‚ reached by light through the eyes as its windows‚ and energizing the nerves to move muscles. Thus did Descartes separate himself from God‚ “a substance infinite‚” and join body and soul‚ only to be misinterpreted as separating mind and matter or child and Mater: “I think‚ therefore I am.” catatonic. Rigid but not stiff like the autistic (which see)‚ inelastic (waxlike

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    Consummately antithesis of what Plato says would assist in being a good leader and what a leader should fixate on‚ Machiavelli verbalizes that there should be nothing on the prince’s (leader) mind other than mastering the art of war. A leader should fixate on the mechanics of war. Study it at all times. Know your opponent. War‚ to Machiavelli‚ is described as an art which needed the full attention of the designer. The only way to be head of the state and to win is to know this art. Have it thoroughly

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