and a desirable quality of political society‚ as well as how it applies to ethical and social decision-making. This article will focus on Western philosophical conceptions of justice. These will be the greatest theories of ancient Greece (those of Plato and Aristotle) and of medieval Christianity (Augustine and Aquinas)‚ two early modern ones (Hobbes and Hume)‚ two from more recent modern times (Kant and Mill)‚ and some contemporary ones (Rawls and several successors). Typically the article considers
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morality‚ by which we are instructed about what we "ought to do." Political power exercises the art of persuasion. In the play Gorgias‚ written by Plato‚ this art is described in its complexity as rhetoric. Rhetoric‚ according to Gorgias‚ is "the art of persuasive public speech." Gorgias also describes rhetoric as being the "good and evil in political activity." Gorgias believed that rhetoric was best used‚ responsibly‚ in a political environment. This is because political environments are foregrounds
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long time. Former accusers prosecute Socrates for “studying things in the sky and below the earth” and “[making] the worse into the stronger argument” (Plato 18b-c). Moreover‚ Meletus‚ who is one of recent accusers‚ charges Socrates of “[corrupting] the young and not believing in the gods in whom the city believes‚ but in new spiritual things” (Plato 24c). The dialogue between Socrates and the jury as well
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make an unjust case appear just 3 advance one’s special interest 4 Chance the ’goo’ life of pleasure c Sophists did not teach for the sake of leanrning‚ but for the sake of 1 sought out the wealthy 2 charged high tutorial fees 5) Plato is opposed to the sophists philosophical understandings and actions/ethics‚ calling them ’hucksters masquerading as philosophers’ 6) Protagora’s A ’Man is the measure of all things‚ of the things that are‚ that they are‚ and of the things that
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Hippocrates. Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather‚ and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias. Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos‚ and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria. The only contemporaneous mention of Hippocrates is in Plato’s dialogue Protagoras‚ where Plato describes Hippocrates as "Hippocrates of Kos‚ the Asclepiad".Hippocrates taught and practiced medicine throughout his life‚ traveling
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It makes perfect sense that to win over the crowd during a delivery; one has to make sure that the crowd likes one as a speaker. However‚ this is not to say that the words of persuasion and rhetorical invention are not important‚ in contrary‚ as Gorgias put it‚ “…if you have the power of uttering this word‚ you will have the physician your slave‚ and the money-maker of whom you talk will be found to gather treasures…‚ for you who are able to speak and to persuade the multitude (798).” Nevertheless
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recognition that Plato is presenting a problem from a virtue ethical angle. This is no doubt due to the fact that Aristotle‚ rather than Plato is regarded as the originator of Virtue Ethics as a branch of philosophy.1 Plato’s own contribution to the discipline is more
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searching for the TRUTH Socrates‚ Plato‚ Aristotle Sophists Paid speakers Taught nobility‚ honor‚ and excellence Uses rhetoric (eloquent‚ fancy language) to manipulate and deceive other people into thinking like they do‚ into accepting their values They pretend to have the answers to all questions‚ but they don’t They teach in order to gain wealth and power Do not seek the truth Will spoon-feed the answer to their teachers Politicians‚ businessmen‚ etc. Gorgias‚ Meno‚ Protagoras Horse and
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Plato (427-347 B.C.) [Athens]. Plato was very much influenced by Socrates and carried on his work in the same vane. Plato‚ who’s real name was Aristocales - the son of Ariston‚ a man of influential ancestry - who had studied the philosophies of the Pythagoreans‚ the Heracliteans‚ and the Eleatics‚ but who’s chief association was seven years with Socrates. After travelling around the Mediterranean region‚ he returned to Athens and founded his own school (387 B.C.) in the Grove of Academus‚ whence
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great philosopher‚ Plato‚ to describe democracy exactly with one of these terms: “Democracy … is a charming form of government‚ full of variety and disorder; and dispersing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike” (Plato 214). The underlining message of the quoted sentence leads one to believe Plato employed the adjective – charming – with a great degree of sarcasm. The philosopher states that democracy brings instability to a state which is governed by the many. Plato is also voicing his
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