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    Socrates Vs Plato

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    The Republic‚ by Plato discusses human morality and the difference between justice and injustice. Socrates is challenged by his peers to explain his views on the topic‚ which he claims that being just is the function of the soul. He is then confronted by more students who suggest that unjust humans have a better life than those who are just. To respond to this Socrates decides to create a city called Kallipollis in order to demonstrate why being just is beneficial to everyone in a society instead

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    interesting or surprising about Thucydides’ approach or attitude to the distant past in comparison with Schliemann’s and/or Evans’? Although their methods of gathering evidence differed greatly‚ Thucydides and Schliemann both had similar opinions over the historical accuracy of Homer’s writings. Thucydides sought out to believe in the history of the past by acknowledging the events that occurred at the time period and correlating it with the oral accounts of them. Thucydides mainly found proof from the

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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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    Brief Summary In this Allegory of the cave written by Plato it tells about how people react to instances in life. The story starts out by telling us to picture people “ having their legs and necks fettered from childhood”(1)‚ so that they cannot move and are only able to see the puppets shown throughout the fire. He goes to point out that if all they can see are these shadows of objects that those said objects must seem like the real ones to the prisoners. So these prisoners would then consider

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    Platos Apology

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    Plato’s The Apology is an account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state‚ inventing new deities‚ and corrupting the youth of Athens. Socrates’ speech‚ however‚ is by no means an "apology" in our modern understanding of the word. The name of the dialogue derives from the Greek "apologia‚" which translates as a defense‚ or a speech made in defense. Thus‚ in The Apology‚ Socrates attempts to defend himself and his conduct--certainly

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    Plato/Education

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    OLD PAPER Grade:88 Blair Khoker Philosophy 101 Education? How? Having knowledge is important in every society‚ whether it be a totalitarian society‚ or a democratic society. In Plato’s Republic‚ Socrates and his interlocutors discuss how to educate children. Is it right to keep them censored‚ or should they be allowed to study

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    Plato v.s. Aristotle

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    Plato was a very intelligent philosopher and teacher. Plato’s most famous student was Aristotle‚ who regardless of his education by the great philosopher has different views and opinions that Plato. The ideas of Plato and Aristotle would battle constantly. Plato’s metaphysics and epistemology split the world into the everyday perception of the world and into forms. These forms are best identified as ideas that are just out in the atmosphere. For example‚ there are so many different designs for creating

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    belief. Using his “Myth of the Cave” Plato contends that sense experience cannot lead to knowledge‚ but in fact knowledge can only be found in ideal models—Forms. I will argue that though false premises and problematic justification of the immortal soul exist as severe challenges to Plato’s epistemological view‚ Plato’s arguments ultimately cannot be concretely proven incorrect nor

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    Plato V. Augustine

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    prestige‚ he is also quite physically handsome. With this knowledge in mind‚ he seeks to seduce Socrates into a lover-beloved relationship in which he is willing to allow Socrates access to his body in return for the knowledge that Socrates possesses [Plato‚ Symposium‚ 217a]. To this‚ Socrates claims that Alcibiades seeks “gold for bronze” [219a] for the beautiful body is nothing when compared to the value of truth. Socrates is praised for his “invulnerability to the power of money [219e]‚ his indifference

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    Plato Allegory of the Cave

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    The Allegory of the Cave is one of Greek philosopher Plato’s most well known works. It is an extended allegory‚ where humans are depicted as being imprisoned by their bodies and what they perceive by sight only. In the allegory of the cave Plato wanted to show how true reality is not always what it seems. A group of prisoners were chained up in a cave since there childhood‚ each prisoner was chained to each other by their heads.The prisoners were forced to face a blank wall while they were

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