in today’s society. IDEAS AND ARGUMENTS To exemplify why being just has more benefits than being unjust‚ Plato puts forward a couple of arguments. First‚ being unjust places strain the individual whereas the just individual is peaceful and calm‚ Plato uses the example of the tyrant‚ where the tyrant is motivated by lust‚ the greed for money and power (Plato‚ 1993:579d-580c). Plato
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Stramel 2942 Response to Questions; Philosophy Plato very much wanted to answer the sophists’ skepticism about morality and reason. To do so‚ he spent much time studying epistemology (knowledge). He realized that to answer sophists’ doubts‚ he had to first solve three problem that the earlier philosophers had failed to answer. The problem of the “one‚ and the many‚” of change‚ and the problem between reality and appearance. Heraclitus had said that everything is constantly changing‚ and Parmenides
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Plato A Greek philosopher known by Plato the founder of the academy of Athens‚ the academy is one of the best philosophical schools. The academy was the school of learning‚ also Plato was one of the student of the famous philosopher Socrates. Plato lived his life after his teacher Socrates died explaining and expanded all Socrates ideas and techniques to his students. Plato was born in a place called Athens‚ Greece where only a quarter of people stayed around the time of 428/427 BCE. (NOTES) He was
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Speaking through his teacher Socrates‚ Plato attempts to answer these questions in the Republic. In book I Thrasymachus‚ a rival of Socrates makes the claim that justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger. It does not pay to be just because those who behave unjustly naturally gain power and become the rulers of society. Justice is what unjust rulers say is right through the rules that they make. It is injustice that is the source of happiness#. Plato sets out to disprove Thrasymachus’ argument
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virtue and goodness. Plato also believed that justice was an essential part of an ideal society. Because it brought more light and could cure bad things. Plato believed that philosophers had to rule the state and that they were the only ones that could judge what justice is because
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Throughout time‚ political theorists have developed varied ideologies in relation to concepts such as authority and democracy based on the social situations they were raised within. For example‚ Plato‚ as a classical theorist‚ developed an ideology revolved around Athenian politics and his experiences within early Athenian society (Rowe‚ 1995‚ p. 18). J.S. Mill however‚ as a modern theorist‚ developed his ideologies around life in Victorian London. (Gray‚ 1995‚ p. 148). The contrast in the mentioned
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or Liberator St. Francis of Assisi in centuries past‚ wrote the analogy‚ “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows”. In earlier centuries still‚ Plato used shadows and the sun as analogous examples in his writings from The Republic: “Allegory of the Cave”. Using a conversation between Socrates and his pupil‚ Glaucon‚ Plato leads us vividly into his view of life by representing individuals as prisoners‚ deep within a cave‚ kept shackled in such a way they cannot look or see in any direction
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Archeologists have also found traces of an ancient city that match Plato’s description(B). Another thing about Atlantis is that nobody knows the exact location of the city. Plato has described where he believed the city to be but it was a dead end. Some believe that Atlantis was located in the Arctic but it has still not been
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and archeologists have spent years trying to “open the mysterious veil of Atlantis”. But has Atlantis ever existed? There has been questionable evidence throughout time but is it enough to prove the existence of the Lost City of Atlantis? Ever since Plato described Atlantis in his famous dialogues‚ there have been hundreds of theories and searches for the Lost City‚ encompassing
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defines justice as “doing one’s own work and not meddling with what is not one’s own” (Plato 139‚ 433b). This definition begs the question what is one’s own work? Plato states that one’s own work is the work that one’s nature is best suited for‚ as each person is born with a different nature (Plato 101‚ 370b). To come to this definition Plato compares justice within the human soul to justice within a city. If Plato can find justice within the city and prove that the individual is only a smaller version
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