What do Plato‚ Descartes‚ and Hobbes contribute to the question "how do we know what is true‚ and what is false?" In the allegory of the cave‚ Plato views the sunlight as the truth‚ and the shadows in the cave as being false‚ and his contribution to the question "how can we tell what is true‚ and what is false" is that we have no way of knowing what is true‚ and what is false‚ until we have experienced them both‚ and can compare the two. I think that Plato is trying to say that society
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Socrates 469 BC–399 BC‚ was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy‚ he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers‚ especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon‚ and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato’s dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity. Through his portrayal in Plato’s dialogues‚ Socrates has become renowned
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philosophers it’s a tossup between being born with it while others think that knowledge is gained as one grows up. In simple terms‚ is knowledge nature or nurture? Are you already born to be joining IMSA or are you brought up with a great education? Plato believes that knowledge is innate‚ meaning that it’s already in you from the beginning‚ also known as a priori knowledge. But other philosophers claim that knowledge is gained through experience. While Plato’s theory does make some sense‚ I believe
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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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CollegeMay 29‚ 2011 | | Abstract This paper will describe the learning experience of my interviewees while translating what The Myth of the Cave by Plato means to them. Further‚ it will discuss the similarities and differences between the responses received from my interviewees based on my discussion of The Myth of the Cave by Plato as read in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy. For this paper‚ I interviewed a group of my peers at work. My company Bombardier makes trains
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justice within an individual and society as a whole‚ and attempts to pinpoint the meaning of the term. He classifies wisdom‚ courage‚ and moderation as the leading qualities a just person should possess. Using a multitude of hypothetical scenarios‚ Plato compares what should be just at a political level to the justness of one’s inner psyche. He provides many scenarios to support his statements‚ however his argument comes across as completely one-sided and biased. Plato’s ideal of a “perfect” society
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undoubtedly informed Plato’s ideas‚ but by the time Plato brings up the notion of a philosopher-king it’s thirty years after Socrates’ death and what the character Socrates says in the Republic is probably much more Plato than Socrates. This is also two hundred years after Confucius‚ so it may even be that the two are not quite so isolated from each other as they may seem. A couple interesting differences between the two become readily apparent. Plato thought that a true philosopher actually wouldn’t
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majority and public opinions combine to choose leaders with respect to the social structure of a particular society‚ taking into consideration the social laws‚ rules‚ traditions‚ norms‚ values‚ and culture. Plato and Aristotle tow of the most influential figures in Greek philosophy. Both Plato and Aristotle were big critics of democracy as a poor form of government. Aristotle’s views about democracy hold that democratic office will cause corruption in the people‚ if the people choose to redistribute
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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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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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