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    Conch Republic

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    Input Area (expand as needed): Selling price per unit 247.5 VC per unit 97 Fixed cost per year 4200000 Discount rate 19% Tax rate 35% Number of years for the project 5 Model Area (expand as needed): Initial Investments Equipment Purchase 20500000 Working Capital 3000000 Total Investment 23500000 Salvage value 3500000 Annual Net After Tax Cash Flows year 0 year 1 year 2 year 3 year 4 year 5 Initial Investment -23500000 Estimated Sales volume 68000 79000 105000 73000

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    Plato Allegory Of Cave

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    been exploring the nature in order to find the universal law explaining nature phenomena. Explore nature require observation and mathematical interpretation. As I understand the achievements of scientists‚ my way of interpreting science has changed. Plato (428-348 B.C.) used the ‘Allegory of Cave’ illustrated the theory of ‘Ideas and Forms’ in Republica : there are world of forms and sensible world. “The senses are chains that tie us down; the route to knowledge is through philosophical reflection”

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    Platos View on Virtue

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    derived from the very same thing. He believed that if a person committed a sin or had an evil heart that they did not have the knowledge they needed to be good. Every day we decide the choices that we make and those choices can make us happy or sad. Plato said that it took Socrates who was a student of the sophists‚ to unravel the real truth of what virtue is and to establish a meaning that all of his students could also believe. This is exactly what Socrates believed. The sophists Protagoras‚ Gorgias

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    THE HUMAN FUNCTION IN PLATO AND ARISTOTLE Plato and Aristotle have similar perspectives about human function. They also share some of their ideas about how human function is related to other philosophical notions such as virtue‚ good‚ justice‚ and the soul. According to Aristotle the chief good (and the human function‚ which has its end in itself) is happiness. But his definition of happiness is different from what ordinary people usually think. Happiness is neither pleasure nor wealth‚ nor is

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    Apology Plato Analysis

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    Apology by Plato tells a story of Socrates‚ who was being accused of teaching others for a fee‚ corrupting the young and not believing in the gods. He asks the court to allow him to defend himself in his normal speaking manner because he had never been in a courtroom. Socrates starts by denying the charges against him. He claims that he has never asked for money from other people. He argued that young rich people with nothing to do would follow him and imitate his interviews of well-known wise people

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    Shadows are casted onto a wall in front of the prisoners and they make out what the shadows are and start to believe different things. They know nothing but these shadows and truly do believe they are real. This story applied very much to the world of Plato and still applies to the world today. Socrates responds that getting to know isn’t always a count number of coming across some thing new but alternatively of recollecting something the soul knew earlier than delivery however has since forgotten

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    An outsider’s view upon how education has transformed people’s attitudes towards education is valuable when discussing how culture affects attitudes towards education. Paul Samuelson‚ the author of Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers and a professor of humanities‚ has noticed an interesting trend in humanity based on his students. When teaching lower socioeconomic status people with the culture that says education is is a way to “rise up the ranks”‚ those people became

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    Plato: The Tripartite Soul Book IV 435c-441c The soul and justice within the soul are issues that Plato endears much time and effort into explaining. The existence of ones soul and its influence upon society is a definite argument by Plato‚ yet viewed very differently by various scholars of the time and centuries to come. Through this essay I intend to address Plato’s interest in the just soul in relation to his tripartite vision of its existence. As Plato lays out in his work The Republic

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    The Apology is written by Plato of Socrates’ trial‚ at 70 years of age Socrates was accused of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. Plato’s account consists of three speeches that were given by Socrates during this trial. Socrates speaks before the men of Athens‚ his jury‚ in 399 BCE and confesses he has forgotten who he was‚ he then recollects who he is‚ and finally he proclaims who Socrates is. The trial began with the prosecutors presenting their case against the accused before the

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    In Plato’s Republic‚ Socrates outlines the ideal society‚ complete with workers to perform labor‚ auxiliaries to perform the military duties‚ and the guardians—or rulers—to set the laws of the state. The rulers‚ Socrates argues‚ are to be selected by their elders and groomed from a young age to assume positions of power. “…We must choose from among our guardians‚” he states‚ “those who appear to us on observation to be most likely to devote their lives to doing what they judge to be in the interest

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