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    Platos Picture Show

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    Chapter 1 Platos Picture Show The Cave image is significant: link between philosophy and the cinema. Like Platos cave the cinema is dark where we are transfixed by mere images that are removed from reality. Watch images that are projected onto a screen. Images are copies of the real things outside the cinema. Highly realistic images vs the cave shadows. We are prisoners as we are prevented from grasping the true order of things by the limits of everyday experience‚ the limits of out ordinary conception

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    Plato Theory of Forms

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    grasp the full concept Plato is trying to get across. However‚ if time is taken to examine Plato’s theory it can make sense. For Plato everything has a pure form. If you take any property of an object and separate it from the object itself‚ you are left contemplating a form. Plato splits up being into two worlds‚ the material world and the transcendent world of forms. We know of the world of forms through the mind‚ through reason; this gives us access to an unchanging world‚ secure from the

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    Plato the Cave

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    The Cave The allegory of the cave is a story of open mindedness and power of possibility made by Plato. Plato considers the allegory of the cave as an analogy of the human condition for our education or lack of it. So imagine prisoners who spent their entire lives chained deep inside a big cave. The prisoners were chained in a position where they cannot see the activity going on behind them and they are forced to stare endlessly at the cave wall in front of them. Directly behind them is a light

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    Imitative Art A Comparison of the Philosophies of Plato & Aristotle And the Ultimate Beneficial Nature of the Tragic Drama By: Stephanie Cimino In the various discussions of imitative art there has been a notable disagreement between two distinguished philosophers; Plato and Aristotle. Although it was Plato who first discussed the concept of imitative art‚ it is my belief that Aristotle was justified in his praise and admiration of imitative art‚ specifically‚ the tragic drama

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    Aristotle V. Plato

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    Estelle Rousseau Ancient Greek Philosophy Professor Lemos 23 November 2012 Plato and Aristotle’s Contrasting Views on the Nature of the Soul Both Plato and Aristotle offered theories on the nature of the soul throughout their prolific careers. Though they both agree on the existence of a soul in living things‚ they diverge in perspective on its ultimate goals‚ how it exists in relation to the body‚ what actions benefit and harm it‚ and whether or not our souls survive our bodies in death. In

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    short note on plato

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    Plato’s Metaphysics in a Nutshell it is vital to know the difference Plato made between sensible "things" and "forms." Things are those aspects of reality which we see though our senses: a boy‚ a table‚ fan‚ television‚ etc. Everything that we experience in the world of impression is constantly changing (the television will start to get worn down‚ the boy will age with time)‚ imperfect and often passing away. This is the realm of appearances‚ and we all know that appearances can be deceptive.

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    Plato And Aristotle Essay

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    Plato and Aristotle attempt to arrive at a set of moral principles dealing with‚ what is considered good and bad and with moral duty and obligation. Plato believed that concepts had an ideal and universal form which lead to his idealistic philosophy. Aristotle believed that universal forms were not linked to an object or concept but needed to be analyzed on its own. Although Aristotle was a student of Plato‚ he did not necessarily agree with Plato’s theory on morality. Aristotle was more focused

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    Plato vs. Wittgenstein

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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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    According to Plato a property that is abstract or quality is considered a form; if you were to take a property of a certain object and separate the property from the object‚ that itself would contemplate a form. A basketball could be taken for example here where you can take the roundness of the object being the basketball in this case and separate the roundness from all of the other properties the basketball has like the weight and the color‚ focusing only of the roundness would be the form of

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    Truth

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    categories. It’s amazing how our own government can lie about such an event(sarcasm). I wrote about this event due to the fact that people still believe we actually did land on the moon when in reality‚ we never did. The truth needs to be out‚ and the government needs to speak the truth‚ but they never will and that’s why I’m speaking it for

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