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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argues that justice is the virtue of the soul. Socrates tells us that justice is desirable because it means health of the soul. Socrates says that justice is the virtue (excellence) of the soul and acting justly makes you happy. The main goal that Socrates wants to achieve is to explain that justice is good and makes you happy‚ so there should be a reason for each individual to act justly. In each individual‚ the “soul” plays an important value with justice. The concept that must be understood
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Nietzsche in reference to a work associated with Goethe. But it was not Goethe’s Faust ‚ his supposed masterpiece‚ nor his Sorrows of Young Werther ‚ the novel that made Goethe an instant 18 th century celebrity as one who painted a picture of human desire run amuck. Nor was it Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship ‚ Goethe’s splendid philosophical novel‚ though a virtually unknown work in modern day America. Nietzsche was referring instead to Johann Peter Eckermann’s biography entitled Conversations
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NOTES for “The Four Cardinal Virtues” Prudence: The virtue of prudence is the mold and mother of all the other cardinal virtues‚ of justice‚ fortitude‚ and temperance. For Pieper the fact that people feel strange when they hear the discussion of prudence occur indicates that they are genuinely lost in terms of the relationship to Western culture. “…there is a larger significance in the fact that people today can respond to this assertion of the pre-eminence of prudence only with incomprehension
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or scientific view. Death is an unknown and interesting topic‚ that’s why all of these unique opinions make for a good debate. Plato‚ an ancient Greek philosopher who was a student of Socrates has many works and Western influence on death and dying. Western views on the soul living after death is developed from Plato’s ancient beliefs. Plato philosophized that the human soul is immortal‚ and that we shouldn’t fear death. Epicurus‚ another ancient Greek philosopher argued that death is the end of
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in which we perceive and believe in what is reality. The thesis behind his allegory is that‚ the basic tenets that all we perceive are imperfect "reflections" of the ultimate Forms‚ which subsequently represent truth and reality. In his story‚ Plato establishes a cave in which prisoners are chained down and forced to look upon the front wall of the cave. The two main elements to the story are that of the fictional metaphor of the prisoners‚ and the philosophical tenet in which said story is supposed
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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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How is moral virtue acquired? Alex Koglman Aristotle believes ethics is about moral virtue over intellectual virtue. Moral virtue comes about as a result of habits of human excellence. So in that case nothing that exists by nature can form a habit. For example‚ when a bunny is born it does not learn to hop it is born to hop. With that being said us humans should try and develop good habits from the beginning of life. By developing good habits this will help you do the right thing without
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definition of a virtue is a trait of character‚ manifested in habitual action‚that is good for a person to have. According to Aristotle‚ these virtues are qualities for successful human living. “The virtuous person will fare better in life” (Virtue Philosophy). Virtue ethics is an approach to Ethics that emphasizes an individuals character as the key element of ethical thinking rather than rules about the acts themselves (Deontology) or their consequences (consequentialism) (Virtue Ethics-The Basics
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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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