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    Plato, Machiavelli

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    Reiko Brady Intro to Political Science 8 March 2013 Idealism vs Realism Machiavelli says the prince only has to seem good‚ not be good. Plato insists that seeming is bad‚ being is good. Nicolo Machiavelli is known as being an realist who accepted that fact that humans are brutal‚ selfish‚ and fickle while Plato was an idealist who believed people could be ruled by a philosopher king who  ruled over the warriors and tradesmen of his ideal republic with rationality. In his view the philosopher-king

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    Platos cave

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    reality? According to Plato everything in our world is just an image of the perfect object. In The Cave by Plato he describes how these people are chained up and they see these shadows on the wall. These shadows are an example of the objects we see in our everyday life (the visible world). Plato says that there is such a presence of “The Good” and that this Good rules this perfect spiritual world in which there is only truth and knowledge. I believe that the good that Plato is talking about is symbolic

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    Philosophy of Plato

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    By studying Plato’s views on the soul‚ virtues‚ and forms‚ one can understand his outlooks on the individual and natural purpose‚ or telos. Plato had a teleological worldview‚ so he believed everything in nature had an end‚ or purpose. In his famous Allegory of the Cave‚ along with the Sun and Line analogies‚ Plato outlines the spiritual and intellectual journey of a human from ignorance into goodness and knowledge‚ which symbolizes a human reaching his or her purpose. This essay will evaluate Plato’s

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    Plato and Immigration

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    Plato Module Today‚ we live in a world that has come a long way and is in a constant state of evolution. Every day‚ our nation leaders are constantly battling to come up with or refine policies and regulations that will‚ they hope‚ improve or sustain our current lifestyle. While the amount of polices is vast‚ the one in particular that I will be focusing on will be immigration‚ more specifically‚ the immigration policy that allows for case-by-case decision making in regards to immigrant deportation

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    Plato and the Matrix

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    philosophy) and “The Matrix” is the idea of human’s limitations in knowledge. According to Andy Clark‚ Philosopher and Cognitive scientist‚ “The Matrix” forces its audience to “ask questions about what the actual limits and bounds of our own behavior are.” “The Matrix” manifests these limitations not only in the characters’ acquisition of knowledge‚ but also of their ability to break physical limitations that the captive humans are still subjected to. Just as Neo

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    Timaeus By Plato

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    Plato was a great philosopher who helped shape the thinking of his fellow peers. He was able to do so greatly by publishing a soon-to-be famous dialogue. Moreover‚ the Timaeus is one of Plato’s most well-known works. In this dialogue‚ he presents his audience with a very elaborate explanation on how the universe was created and formed. In the Timaeus‚ Plato made sure to include certain contributors who featured: Socrates‚ Timaeus‚ Hemocrates‚ and Critias. Plato created this masterpiece because he

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    Pi and Plato

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    many of those who try to apprehend such knowledge lack the ability to perceive why some things in the world are better off not knowing. The Allegory of the Cave written by Plato and the movie Pi by Darren Aranofsky demonstrate exactly why such goals should not be attainable. In the Allegory of the Cave‚ Plato expresses the idea of different perception of the real reality and the fear of letting go that perceived reality. The prisoners chained in a cave their whole life believe the shadows is what

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    Plato and Socrates

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    Plato and Socrates Classical Greece in the 4th and 5th centuries BC was a period in which some of history’s greatest philosophers lived. The relationship between Plato‚ and his mentor Socrates was‚ for Plato‚ one of reverence. Plato viewed his teacher as an inspiration and as a philosophical model to emulate. Plato was a student of Socrates. Plato is the main eye-witness source for the life of Socrates and we know from his account of Socrates’ trial that Plato was a student at the time. Socrates

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    Plato Education

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    Plato is known as one of the earliest thinkers on education. He believed that the key to a successful society is a strong educational system. The purpose of education according to Plato‚ is to produce good citizens for the benefit of society and to improve the moral quality of each citizen. With proper training focusing on literature‚ music‚ and mathematics a person would become well aware of what is morally acceptable and what has the potential to ruin society. Plato wanted all citizens to use

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    Plato and Thrasymachus

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    Platos Notion of Justice vs. Thrasymachus‚ Why Be Moral? By: Khonstance Milan Plato has a different sense of justice than what we ourselves would consider to be justice. Justice starts in the heart and goes outward. Justice is about being a person of good intent towards all people‚ doing what is believed to be right or moral. Plato believes that once a person has a true understanding of justice that they will want to be “just” for its own benefit regardless of good or bad consequence. Though

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