Summary: In The Allegory of The Cave‚ Plato indicates that the truth‚ the realistic‚ and the justice are certainly hard to find‚ but people should not give up the pursuit through combining the fancy and realistic‚ and they should not abandon this awareness. Plato uses a metaphor‚ prisoners who assume that the objects’ shadows from the projection of the fire in the den is the truth and the realistic because they do not know how real objects look like in the outside world. However‚ when a prisoner
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Raquel Vargas 2-26-14 English Period 1 The Scarlett Letter and Plato (The Allegory of the Cave) have many questions that can be made. In Plato the prisoners are blinded from reality and only look at one thing‚ which are the shadows displayed on the walls. “Thus they stay in the same place so that there is only one thing for them to look at: whatever they encounter in front of their faces.” (part one) As in for The Scarlett Letter‚ the townspeople can be compared
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Andrew Surratt March 27‚ 2012 Political Theory Dr. Ramona Grey Plato’s goal of education for enlightenment differs from Huxley’s perverted use of education for indoctrination. In Plato’s Republic‚ Plato believed the state was responsible for the education of its citizens for the purpose of their individual enlightenment. Huxley‚ in his work Brave New World takes this part of Plato’s utopian society and perverts it in order to indoctrinate the citizens of his state. I will attempt to argue
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Instructor Day Month Year Justice through the Eyes of Plato and Hume The philosophic debate of justice goes back millennia with many points of view on what it actually is and why we have it. Both Plato and Hume had ideas on justice and both differed. Plato‚ in his Republic‚ searches for justice by building a city from the ground up in our imagination. He starts with merely five to ten people each with their own job and states that justice is the virtue of the soul. David Hume tells us that “public
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assignment is poetry v. philosophy. Plato speaks of a quarrel b/t poetry and philosophy. He dismisses the arts while Aristotle defends them. DO we see traces of this quarrel in later traditions? If so‚ where? And how is it played out there? For this essay‚ in addition to Plato and Aristotle‚ focus on Dante’s Inferno. (Please look to see if my thesis is clear and strong‚ my evidence is all relevant‚ and whether this whole essay persuades you) Throughout his life‚ Plato strongly believed that the arts
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Discussion Question 5 In platos republic‚ book VI‚ platos tells the story of Allegory of the cave. This story tells of what plato believes true education is. First plato tells what education is not. “Education isn’t what some people declare it to be‚ namly‚ putting knowledge into souls that lack it‚ like putting sight into blind eyes”(518b) then plato describes what he thinks education is. “Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing‚ this turning around‚ and with how the soul
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the cave‚ state a similar meaning of one living in a world with a greater truth. Both The Allegory by Plato and the Matrix‚ speake and argue about a prison‚ a prison within our life and our world that one does not know of. Similarities are drawn between both the story and the movie. It gives one an idea of what Plato stated in his philosophical allegory in a more modern time‚ compare to the year Plato wrote the allegory. Both stories are common in the way they describe two worlds that humans are not
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talents and virtues‚ knew he may never be flawless‚ yet he strove to be anyway. He applied imperative ethical goals on a day to day basis and practiced productive habits. Benjamin Franklin embodied numerous significant characteristics that certainly led to his many successes. Benjamin Franklin imposed remarkable moral values when he created the thirteen virtues. He formed a procedure to conquer each of these virtues‚ starting with temperance. Franklin strategized to master one virtue a week‚ yet
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Plato’s “Republic” is a seminal text‚ that explores; the definition of justice‚ the character and order of a just city and the minutiae of human experience. Specifically in Book IV‚ Republic examines the four main virtues of life; Justice‚ wisdom‚ courage and moderation. Through this chapter one can postulate that for the harmony of the city and the individual the tenure of moderation and spirit must always be balanced. However book IV‚ is not simply suggesting‚ that moderation means a man is necessarily
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Socrates and Plato used critical and analytical thinking patterns in their philosophical quest for knowledge. The questioning of why and how or critical and analytical thinking are the foundations of their beliefs. Plato was the student and Socrates the teacher. Socrates believed that reasoning could give meaning to the what‚ how and why of moral judgment and Plato believed this type of reasoning would give understanding to “the perfect Goodness” (pg. 17). Plato believed that this kind of thinking
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