(25) Plato originally thought of the forms because of the concept of beauty. Although we see objects and think that they are beautiful‚ we never ‘beauty’. Also many different things can be beautiful‚ but in different ways but they all still have one thing in common‚ beauty. This leads to Plato concluding that there must be something which is ‘beauty’ that all of these things get it from. This idea of a universal thing that more than one thing can have was the first thought that lead Plato to the
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In terms of justice‚ Plato uses political communities and the individual of one’s self and family as to what he thinks justice is. In the Republic Plato states that “ no two people are born exactly alike”. Plato was right about this quote‚ but he uses this quote in general to get to the bottom of what it means to be just or unjust in life for the individual and even the state. Socrates through his conversation with Adeimantus gives information about what Plato thinks justice is‚ he uses political
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Assess whether Plato can provide objectively correct solutions to moral issues (45m) Plato aims to provide objective and absolute solutions to moral issues‚ his intelligible realm is where these solutions lie. Plato is a realist and views morality as an objective issue which has a right or wrong answer. Morality is about rationality. Plato’s largest argument for providing objective moral solutions is his theory of the Forms. The forms are only accessible through reasoning and rationality‚ according
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with Plato that having your emotions stirred on behalf of a character in a story undermines your ability to control your own emotions? Why or why not? Initially I did not agree with Plato when he states that having your emotions stirred on behalf of a character undermines your ability to control your own emotions‚ after reading and analyzing his reasons for making this assertion I now agree. Plato believes that it is “best to bear misfortune as quietly as possible without resentment (Plato 369)”
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exists is a question that has been pondered by many great thinkers. Aristotle‚ Immanuel Kant‚ Plato and Socrates had quite a bit to say on the subject. All of these well-known philosophers have a road map to happiness‚ religion‚ passion and objectivity. Yet‚ their theories differ ultimately in how to go about attaining each of them. For both Plato and Aristotle the good appears to be happiness. For Plato‚ this is where his interpretation of the meaning of Eudaimonism takes precedence. Eudaimonism
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explored through the perspectives of Niccolo Machiavelli who provides insight on power‚ John Locke who states the manner in which authority( the right to rule) is established‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ who shares the means in which authority’s maintained and Plato with his idea of legitimacy- rightfulness in rule. Machiavelli wrote an ontological political thesis of what power is observing that the manifestation of social conflict was because of the lust for domination which innately exists within any state
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its various forms and those who are in control of them have changed throughout as time has progressed‚ the concerns still are the same. Plato wrote about the influence that poets had on young people of his time in the same way that those who have analyzed this issue today have revealed the effects of literature and television on today’s children. Plato strongly states in his writing "The Greater Part of the Stories Current Today We Shall Have to Reject" that initially we should begin with
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Morals and ethics is‚ of course‚ a subject that runs deep in the discussion of philosophy. People are faced with moral dilemmas everyday‚ which many times society decides without thoroughly exploring their options. Immanuel Kant‚ John Stuart Mill‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle are philosophers that focus on the topic of ethics‚ yet all have different outlooks. Kant is considered a non-consequentiality‚ which means he feels the intentions motives‚ and good will is more important than the results
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justice in order to ensure its legitimacy. The sense of justice however‚ can be open to conflicting understandings and we thus need to address justice as a concept. According to Plato‚ when one asks the question‚ what is justice? One is synonymously asking‚ what is the best form of a state? (Stirk and Weigall‚ 1995:2). Plato believed that the best form of the state is one in which each individual strives to be the best version of themselves and aspires to the state of goodness. This goodness would
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under an obligation to obey. (Stirk and Weigall‚ 1995:39). Central to this tenet of authority is the idea that authority must have justice. This keys the question‚ what is justice? Which according to Plato is no different to asking what form of the state is idealistic. (Stirk and Weigall‚ 1995:2). Platos conclusion suggested that the best form of the state is the moral reordering of the whole of society (Annas‚ 1881:13) This suggests that morally society is to return to the way things ought to be in
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