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    The author I have chosen is Harry James Cargas‚ his expertise is an american scholar‚ author‚ teacher‚ and best known for his writing. The title‚ sunflower Symposium (pg. 124). James claims he is afraid not to forgive because he fears and believes he will not be forgiven. He is in a conflict‚ but he will not be able to forgive the SS soldier; the only one to forgive is God. Cargas main point is who even has the right to forgive‚ for example‚ “Who am I to forgive? I tremble with all of my being

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    Plato: Knowledge‚ and Immortality of the Soul Reading this selection was a bit confusing since Socrates is the one who is talking and not Plato himself‚ I quickly realize that Plato was a pupil of Socrates so it would only make sense to explain your beliefs through the words of the very person who instilled this truth within you. To start off‚ I would like to bring up “The Divided Line”. The diagram shown first divides‚ to my understanding‚ the world as it is from the world as we perceive it. It

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    that when placed next to each other can have completely different meanings‚ especially when we apply it individually. In the "Apology" by Plato‚ the character of Socrates is one of a man in his seventies who believes that his calling is to “discourse about virtue‚ and of those other things about which you hear [him] examining [himself] and others...” Plato describes Socrates living a philosophical or examined life which overall implies the concept of human excellence. For him‚ human excellence

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    Polazzo Injustice in our Society and in Ourselves What is justice is a question that has plagued philosophers since the time of Plato when he wrote The Republic to present day. In the book‚ Plato uses the dialectic‚ between Socrates and other Athenians like Polemarchus‚ Cephalus‚ and Glacuon‚ to try and find the definition of justice. Through the voice of Glaucon‚ Plato defines justice as a compromise of sorts between advantage and fear‚ and injustice as the things that we wouldn’t

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    Although Crito has many valid and argumentative reasons for Socrates to escape‚ he is steadfast in his beliefs and dies a martyr. Crito has three main arguments for Socrates to escape his imprisonment. Crito’s first argument is that if Socrates does not escape from prison he would loose a dear friend. There is also the fact that Crito’s reputation would be hurt for not helping his friend escape from jail. The second argument that Crito has is that he fears that Socrates does not want to escape because

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    Remember: To Live! The Philosophy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Delivered at the Washington‚ D.C. Spinoza Society‚ Goethe-Institut Written by Daniel Spiro I. Introduction “The great Goethe.” Those words roll off the tongue‚ and not merely because of the alliteration. Words like “great” and “genius” could aptly be used for but a select number of artists – for Michelangelo‚ say‚ or Shakespeare. In the Un ited States‚ the works of those artists have been incorporated into popular culture

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    The minds of Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle SOCRATES‚ one of those who sought to develop a more consistent and purer concept of god‚ but he paid the price of a pioneer in that the masses misunderstood him. He was considered as the destroyer of the gods of the Greeks. He maintained that the centrality of the real essence of man and individual is not only its acceptance of the different gods but the real understanding of one’s relationship with others in a rational manner. This implies a rational

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    A Review of Plato’s Meno Plato presents in his dialogue‚ titled Meno‚ the distinction between genuine knowledge and true opinion. In the text‚ he refers to knowledge as the form and definition of something that is changeless‚ where as true opinion can be altered and is not restricted in the way knowledge is by having standards of a form. Plato includes the characters of Socrates and Meno‚ a pupil of Gorgias‚ to discuss the nature of virtue and knowledge. The dialogue is provoked by Meno posing

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    Argument for Dreaming Rene Descartes – one of the most recognized philosophers of all time has presented us with many arguments in his pursuit to demolish skepticism in his book “Meditations on First Philosophy.” The subject of this paper will be the argument for dreaming which he assesses in said writing. The argument seeks to prove or disprove the fact that one can know that one is not dreaming at any given moment. It is easy to jump to the conclusion that the idea that you are sleeping right

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    In Plato’s Apology‚ Socrates states that‚ “The unexamined life is not worth living” (38a). I am using the knowledge learned through hours of class discussion of Socrates from the Euthyphro‚ Apology‚ and Crito to explain what Socrates means by “the examined life‚” and why he thinks that it is the only life worth living‚ and why he thinks that it can be lived only with others‚ in Athens. In doing so‚ I have found that the truth sought by Socrates is much more about the journey that one takes while

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