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    Socrates The Apology

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    Plato thinking was highly influenced by Socrates as evidenced in his book‚ “The Apology”. It depicts Socrates as one who was extremely interested in morality‚ living a good life and mostly caring for the soul. To him‚ there are no better blessings than those of God. Therefore‚ he was an ambassador of ethics (Plato & In Richards‚ 1966). In his writings‚ Plato brings out the aspect of general knowledge as being what people believe without need for foundational proof. Any act of believing otherwise

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    Philosophy and Ethics Assessment: Critical Analysis of Plato’s the Good Defining the Good according to Plato is not an easy undertaking. The best approach to understanding the Good is to first understand it as a Form‚ and then define Plato’s theory of Forms. From there is possible to gain insight of the Good as a Form and its theoretical implications‚ especially concerning ethics. According to Plato‚ everything in the visible world is that of a Form. Forms can be described as “the single unitary entity

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    Journey to Enlightenment

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    a Journey undertaken by the soul of humanity -- to ascent from unenlightened to the enlightened‚ where Plato believes the Theory of Forms is located. As we see here “Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment of the eyes are of two kinds‚ and arise from two causes‚ either from coming out of light or from going into light…” (Plato 1122). Through the voice of Socrates‚ Plato effectively explains through rhetorical strategies of metaphor‚ symbolism‚ and logos to persuade his audience

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    What Is the Good Life?

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    "good life" is pleasing oneself; while utilitarians believe that the "good life" is acting for the good of the rest of society and others. Philosophers also have their own interpretations. One philosopher that has his own interpretation is Plato in the Symposium. Plato portrays to the philosopher ’s "good life" when he uses the phrase "my greatest pleasure." The choice of the word "my" tells the reader that philosophical conversation may not necessarily be everyone ’s greatest pleasure but just his own

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    Reflection Paper on Plato’s Republic According to Plato‚ a perfect society is a society that is organized in a superlatively efficient way‚ a society‚ which some scholars consider as an aristocratic government (Phylosophypages‚ 2001). Plato had it that such a society is made up of the rulers‚ the soldiers‚ and the people. In this perfect society‚ Plato claimed that the guardians of the state are supposed to be people with skills to lead. He was however‚ incredulous by the fact that this may not

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    will provide further details about submission as the exam nears. 1. Plato and Thucydides are both critical of democracy. Describe each thinker’s criticism of democracy. What are the similarities and/or differences between these two lines of critique? Who in your judgment is more persuasive or convincing? Why? 2. Plato draws a distinction between good lies‚ which are useful‚ and bad lies‚ which are harmful. According to Plato‚ what is the difference between these two types of lies and what effects

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    was just another form of entertainment and should be left untouched. Plato was a philosopher and mathematician that came from Classical Greece. He thought that all arts should be censored and only keep the contents that show or do good. He believes that the youth must be shielded from harmful art because it will influence them to devalue friendships with others‚ act unjustly‚ or stray from their paths of honoring the gods. Plato considers any art depicting the gods in blasphemous ways to be harmful

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    of such a great philosopher like Plato and considering the respect and admiration that Aristotle professed to his mentor‚ it had to be a challenge to respectfully provide strongest foundations. Regarding the Theory of Forms‚ Plato and Aristotle both use their definitions of ‘form’ to defeat their relative problems with knowledge. For both philosophers form is able to categorize all things; books are books because they reflect the form of a book. Nevertheless‚ Plato and Aristotle’s theories on metaphysical

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    society it is stated that a man shouldn’t think about having kids if he doesn’t plan on giving a good education to them (Plato 45). This signifies that education is the first thing in a man’s life that will make him a good person. In the dialogues of Crito‚ we can see that music and gymnastics played a major role in education because Socrates’s father trained him in those fields (Plato 51). Education also plays a major role in a man’s life because it not only helps in this life but also the after life

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    Plato and Machiavelli‚ both take into account in their writings the power of the people in society‚ however‚ both have different ways of dealing with this unchecked power. Plato wants to establish a society‚ based upon his concept of logos that there is some forms of eternal common good‚ that need to be followed‚ so he wants to set up a Philosopher King‚ instead of a democracy. Machiavelli points out that regardless of the system in place the individual in charge needs to pay attention to the opinions

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