Thucydides vs Plato Thucydides and Plato had contrasting ways in their approach on the good life. Thucydides displays empirical thinking in his studies of human nature and behavior during the Peloponnesian War and Plato displays normative thinking in his books and dialogs in particular "The Republic" Plato views a good life on the ideals that a person has reached happiness. When a person is in a state where they have no desires because they have all love in their life. He believed this
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continue to help support the children and possibly his ex-wife. Medea when she decides it is time for her to kill her children struggles with the idea for a minute‚ " do not be a coward‚ do not think of them‚ and how you are their mother Oh I am an unhappy women."(Pg 40). This is how a traditional Athenian woman would think‚ but she would be unable to commit to her plans and kill her
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Critical Analysis of “Phaedo” by Plato Much of the Phaedo by Plato is composed of arguments for the nature of the physical world and how it relates to the after life‚ for example‚ the way our senses perceive the world and how indulging in those senses has negative consequences in our after lives. These arguments find basis in scientific analysis of the time as well as the mythos of the his age. One of the key talking points within the story is the theory of forms. The aforementioned theory
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The Social Efficiency Ideology has the purpose of creating individuals that are ready to live an independent life. People supporting this ideology believe that education is a process that should prepare individuals to appropriately function in the community. This ideology sees schooling as the main tool to help develop mature adults that are ready to have a career and can be productive members of society. School is the place where children come to learn the skills and procedures they will need to
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two theses on ideology: "Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence" and "Ideology has a material existence". The first thesis tenders the familiar Marxist contention that ideologies have the function of masking the exploitative arrangements on which class societies are based. The second thesis posits that ideology does not exist in the form of "ideas" or conscious "representations" in the "minds" of individuals. Rather‚ ideology consists of
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Plato and Wittgenstein have very different ideas concerning the nature and function of mathematical propositions. Outline one or more of these differences. Whose account do you consider to be more accurate‚ and why? Plato and Wittgenstein possess contrasting views of what mathematics is‚ and how it can be utilized as a model within philosophy; nevertheless‚ they both agree that it represents more perfect model of philosophy. Whereas Plato was‚ perhaps‚ the first rationalist‚ Wittgenstein ’s forceful
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The Allegory of the cave represent how people perceive illusion versus reality. It shows how the environment around us and even the people effect how we perceive information and our surroundings. Education and knowledge is gained by what we hear and see. The story is based around the men of this cave and how they were chained up from their childhood until adulthood. “Here they have been from their childhood and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move‚ and can only see before them
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How compelling is the city-soul analogy and to what extent does the picture of “Platonic justice” that emerges from it differ from conventional justice? Much has been written about the inadequacy of the city-soul analogy in establishing what justice is‚ and further about how Plato fails to adequately connect his vision of justice to the conventional one and so is unable to address the original challenge. I mean to show that the city-soul analogy is in fact compelling‚ or at least that is it sufficiently
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Proposed Title of the Thesis Struggle over Identity: Colonialist Ideology in Kipling’s Kim. Statement of the Problem Is Kim white or is he a native? While Kim insists that he is an Indian‚ the narrator adamantly asserts Kim’s British origins. This struggle between Kim and the narrator continues throughout the novel. The struggle over the inheritance is resolved through a bifurcation of the paternal function: on the one hand‚ Kim’s personal and emotional allegiance to the Indians and‚ on the
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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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