must acquire it) through observation and reasoning through faith. Different views exhibit on how knowledge is achieved. One may say through common sense and observation‚ while another may say through teachers and peers. According to the philosopher Plato in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ “Certain professors of education must be wrong when they say that they can put knowledge into the soul which was not there before‚ like sight into blindness. The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already;
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Socrates is shocked to learn that Euthyphro is prosecuting his own father. Euthyphro defends his actions‚ believing that it is just to do so even though his acquaintances maintain that “it is impious for a son to prosecute his father for murder” (Plato‚ 8). Quickly‚ Socrates gets to the heart of the matter. Euthyphro is positive in his belief‚ therefore Socrates asks him directly: “what is the pious‚ and what the impious?” (9). Euthyphro’s first definition of piety is simple: “the pious is to do
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Clay Chastain PHIL 3320 Dr. Combs 24 October 2007 On the Crito In Plato’s Crito‚ Crito attempts to persuade Socrates to flee from his death sentence. However‚ Crito fails because Socrates presents a counter argument which invalidates much of Crito’s original pleas. Despite this‚ a fallacy of justice may have been created. Even so‚ the Republic’s conception of justice seems to have little impact on Socrates’ existing ideas on justice. The first argument presented is the fact that the majority
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Descartes and Plato Explain both of descartes Arguments for the existence of God Descartes proof of God’s existence comes from his third meditation and is based on three ideas. He argues that innate idea exists within us‚ the fictitious or invented ideas are a result of our own imagination and adventitious ideas result from our experiences in the world. Descartes said‚ the idea of God is innate and cannot be invented. Descartes presents some arguments that lead to his conclusion. The first
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10/29/2013 People are accused all over the world for crimes they are not guilty of. In the text “Platos Apology” Socrates is accused of a crime which is slander. Socrates believes that teaching is not crime and he shouldn’t be prosecuted for such an act.Teaching is not a crime. How can he be accused of something that isn’t wrong in society? Even though Socrates is proven guilty he has no regrets. He believes he did nothing wrong and is happy to share his knowledge with people. Socrates
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Euthyphro- Plato: Defining Socrates in your own words. Socrates during a session….. Untia Daun Bigelow PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Patricia Addeso October 21‚ 2013 It seems that in the reading both Socrates and Euthyphro are both dealing with legal issues and they are discussing the differences and the similarities of their cases with one another. Socrates is a defendant in a suit accusing him of impiety which was brought against him by no other than Meletus who was not
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weren’t always exactly the same‚ though they were somewhat similar. After his Professor‚ Plato‚ passed away‚ Aristotle followed in his footsteps and started his own school called the Lyceum. In his school‚ one of the things Aristotle taught was one that he and Plato had slight mixed view about‚ which was Rhetoric. Plato’s and Aristotle’s views on rhetoric are similar but have slight differences. The theories of Plato and Aristotle are so similar‚ that there are hardly any distinguishing between the two
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Euthyphro Plato’s Euthyphro is the dialogue of Socrates and Euthyphro. Socrates requests that Euthyphro teaches him the meaning of piety‚ when Socrates finds out that Euthyphro is persecuting his father for being impious. Euthyphro offers four definitions for what piety is‚ all of which are analyzed by Socrates‚ and then turned down by him in turn. The pious is to prosecute the wrongdoer and to not persecute is impious. This is the first definition that Euthyphro offers to Socrates as a
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Imitation Plato and Aristotle Introduction Plato and Aristotle are two famous literary critics in ancient Greece. Aristotle is Plato’s student. They all agree that art is a form of imitation. However‚ their attitudes towards imitation are profoundly different. Plato claims that poetry is worthless and bad because it is mere imitation and may have bad influence on human beings. Instead‚ though Aristotle admits that poetry is imitation‚ he thinks that it is all right and even good. He also
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Plato Defends Rationalism Plato was a highly educated Athenian Philosopher. He lived from 428-348 B.C. Plato spent the early portion of his life as a disciple to Socrates‚ which undoubtedly helped shape his philosophical theories. One topic that he explored was epistemology. Epistemology is the area of philosophy that deals with questions concerning knowledge‚ and that considers various theories of knowledge (Lawhead 52). Plato had extremely distinct rationalistic viewpoints. Rationalism
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