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    Plato Communism

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    PLATO’S THEORY OF COMMUNISM Plato was born in may/june 428/27 BC in Athens in an aristocratic family . Plato’s real name was Aristocles.He excelled in the study of music ‚ mathematics ‚poetry and rhetoric . Plato met with Socrates in 407 BC and became his desciple . The execution of Socrates proved to be the turning point of Plato’s life . Plato left Athens and went to many countries ‚ studying mathematics and the historical traditions of the priests . He returned to Athens in 386 BC and established

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    Plato on Justice

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    Plato’s interpretation of justice as seen in ‘The Republic’ is a vastly different one when compared to what we and even the philosophers of his own time are accustomed to. Plato would say justice is the act of carrying out one’s duties as he is fitted with. Moreover‚ if one’s duties require one to lie or commit something else that is not traditionally viewed along with justice; that too is considered just by Plato’s accounts in ‘The Republic.’ I believe Plato’s account of justice‚ and his likely

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    MAGPILI‚ Airish A. 2PHL1 THE NOTION OF FREE WILL IN AUGUSTINE’S IDEA OF POLITICAL THEORY How can the chosen ones work successfully and just in the unjust world? To Augustine‚ the earth was brought to exist by an absolute‚ perfectly good and just God which himself created man. For Augustine‚ the earth is not eternal‚ that the earth in comparison with time has both limit which means has beginning and an end. While man on the other hand is brought to exist to endure eternally‚ compassion is given

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    conflicting worldviews of the Romans‚ early Christians had a difficult time formulating a worldview consistent with their religion and current culture. One early Christian‚ Augustine‚ seemed to figure it out. His views are documented in his works‚ The City of God‚ On Christian Doctrine and The Confessions. In these works‚ Augustine articulates the

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    sight". This is the foundation of human knowledge Aristotle presents us with in Book Alpha of the Metaphysics. The next question which we must naturally ask ourselves is‚ How? How is it that we can have any knowledge at all? We by our very nature desire to know and we love the senses in themselves but what is the relationship between the two and by what faculty are we able to call anything knowledge once sense perception has occurred? Aristotle sets up as his faculty for knowledge both the active

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    In my essay I shall discuss Aquinas’ understanding that blame is excusable due to ignorance if and only if they are involuntarily ignorant. I shall outline Aquinas’ understanding of voluntary ignorance and involuntary ignorance as an excuse from blame. Then I shall analyse this view‚ and conclude that whether or not the individual is blameable can‚ in some cases‚ only be prescribed by the individual. Aquinas as a Neo-Platonist believes that existence is a good in itself‚ therefore‚ all things that

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    Thomas Aquinas Religion

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    the time was Thomas Aquinas. Questioning the existence of god was frowned upon in medieval philosophy because it questioning would change the system of how things are done. So there was a great reason to just go with the flow and follow religion. Thomas Aquinas was one to follow religion and actually establish a reason for god’s existence in a logical sense. Using logic and faith‚ god can be proven to have been the cause of all beings in the universe. Three of Thomas Aquinas quinque viae or arguments

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    Philosophy of Plato

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    By studying Plato’s views on the soul‚ virtues‚ and forms‚ one can understand his outlooks on the individual and natural purpose‚ or telos. Plato had a teleological worldview‚ so he believed everything in nature had an end‚ or purpose. In his famous Allegory of the Cave‚ along with the Sun and Line analogies‚ Plato outlines the spiritual and intellectual journey of a human from ignorance into goodness and knowledge‚ which symbolizes a human reaching his or her purpose. This essay will evaluate Plato’s

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    Aquinas' 3rd Way

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    Essay #1: Aquinas’ 3rd Way: Aquinas’ third way argument states that there has to be something that must exist‚ which is most likely God. He starts his argument by saying not everything must exist‚ because things are born and die every single day. By stating this we can jump to the conclusion that if everything need not exist then there would have been a time where there was nothing. But‚ he goes on‚ if there was a time when there was nothing‚ then nothing would exist even today‚ because something

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    Church. Leo the Great is referred to as the first pope. The pope recognized with the most influence during this time was Gregory. He was a contemporary of Augustine and is considered first and foremost a religious leader who preached to the faithful. Gregory’s writings did nothing to contradict the great teachers of the early church‚ especially those of Augustine. To this end‚ Gregory affirmed speculations of Augustine as he developed the doctrine of

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