caused him to use conversational tone rather than judicial. He asks the jury to listen to what is being said‚ rather than how. For Socrates believes that the excellence of a speaker lies in nothing but the truth. Socrates states that his purpose in life is to bring people to greater wisdom. His does this by questioning them. As the oracle stated‚ there is no man wiser than Socrates. This is because Socrates is aware of his own ignorance‚ unlike other men. He believes that it is his job to question
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Education in Confucius and Plato After long time of their death we still remember these philosophers – Plato and Confucius. We know Plato by his work “Republic”. Plato was born in Ancient Greece in 428. And Confucius was born in 551 in Ancient China. He tried to serve to rulers‚ often he was criticized. He was persecuted but‚ nevertheless‚ was famed by his wisdom. Confucius had a lot of followers and died in 479. He created Analects‚ which for more then 2 thousand years became ideological
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Comparison Between Plato´s Allegory and Today´s Time Can you imagine the relationship between old works of philosophers and today’s world? Could you imagine how it would be if you discovered that the world you think you live in is not exactly what you think? Or the things you see are not exactly what you see? The Allegory of the Cave by Plato represents an extended metaphor; a figure of speech in which a phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest
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The health is very important with our life. Many people said that " Having a good health is having every things". And the truth‚ if you haven’t got a good health‚ you will not have perfect happiness in family‚ life and career. So that‚ It’s necessary to keep your fit. There are hundreds of thousands of way for you keep your fit. But in my opinion‚ you can notice some following point: + You should do morning exerc/ises or play sport as ride bicycle in fresh air. Riding bicycle helps to reduces
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dispositions. For Aristotle morality is about living in accordance with virtue. Every activity has some goal or end and his project here is to figure out what the Good consists in According to Aristotle something is good to the extent that it fulfills its function. What is our function? it must be what distinguishes us from plants and animals‚ which is rationality. Happiness is achieved through virtuous activity which itself is the proper exercise of reason. It also requires other goods. So happiness
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According to Nietzsche in this section‚ the good life consists of power and overcoming obstacles. The bad life comes from weakness. Nietzsche says that humans desire power and that anything proceeding from weakness is bad. Happiness comes from an increase in power and the weak are destroyed. He believes that providing sympathy to those who display immoral conduct is worse than immoral acts by themselves. This is what he sees Christianity as and is greatly opposed to it. Concupiscence and cupidity
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Philosophy Plato Essay a) Explain Plato’s analogy of the cave (15 marks) Plato was a Greek philosopher‚ he had a mentor named Socrates‚ Plato explains in his analogy of the cave the relation between the physical‚ material world and the higher world of forms. He wants us to challenge the ignorance of humanity when people don’t engage in philosophy‚ the injustice of the death of Socrates‚ the view of another world with forms‚ not appearances‚ and the potential for true knowledge that philosophy
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Why would someone who loves life‚ want to die? Majority of people would say that “life” to them is everything. Spending time with family and making memories is what life is all about. One thing that is unescapable is death. But thanks to the advances in medical technology‚ life can be lengthened to the point where we can choose when to die. Families pay hundreds of thousands of money because they want to keep their loved ones alive‚ but what do the ones being kept alive want? Being in the brink
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Essay No. 2 TOPIC A Think about one or more of your friendships in light of what Aristotle writes about friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. Write an essay that reflects on both -- your friendship(s) in terms of Aristotle’s ideas and/or Aristotle’s ideas in terms of your friendship(s). You may refer to relevant sections of the Ethics by line number as needed‚ but the main idea here is to reflect on your real life experience of friendship and consider how Aristotle’s ideas compare to your experience
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Imitation Background Plato was born in 427 BC—3 years after the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war. At the time ancient Greek was divided into several city states‚ and each state has its own government. At that time there were two city states which were powerful and strong enough to influence the governing system of whole Greek. The states were “Athens” and “Sparta”. Both the states were at war‚ when Plato was born ‚ due to the conflict of choice of democracy rule or military rule. Plato was born in a
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