In Plato’s work The Republic‚ Plato’s introduces his mentor and teacher Socrates. In this allegory‚ Socrates questions one of his students‚ Glaucon‚ about the ideas behind reason and our senesces. Socrates sets the scene in an eerie‚ dark cave with fire as their source of light. Socrates emphasizes that the men are chained from head to toe and can only see the shadows from the objects that the “marionette players” place in front of the light. The light reflecting from the outside world and the fire
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The Roman Republic‚ which was established in 510 BC after the defeat Etruscan conquerors‚ was in some ways an oligarchy. It was not a democracy as it is understood today. The Roman republic was ruled by a small group; consuls‚ and the Senate. To avoid trouble‚ none of these had absolute power. The Senate was a part of Roman aristocrats known as patricians or the wealthy upper class. They could oversee public funds and advise the Roman kings. They were from wealthy family and stayed in the position
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GOVT-105-001 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE FOR PLATO’S REPUBLIC Book I: Refutation of definitions of justice. 1. Who are Cephalus‚ Polemarchus‚ and Thrasymachus? Cephalus: Older man‚ father of Polemarchus 2. How does Cephalus define justice? How does Polemarchus? Thrasymachus? Cephalus: Justice is telling the truth and paying your debts. If a person follows this‚ they will be fine‚ and will be okay in the afterlife. Polemarchus: Justice is being good to your friends and doing harm to your
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SAMPLE EXAM RESPONSES ENGLISH 222 #1 Knowing the historical context of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Julia Ward Howe‚ that it was first published during the opening phases of the American Civil War in support of the Union cause‚ one can infer that a theme in the poem is the abolition of slavery. The first stanza does not seem to allude to this theme as it presents a prophetic vision of “the coming of the Lord.” However‚ the first hint of this theme comes in the second stanza: “ I have
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Word count : 1175 1. Explain the three parts of the soul in your own words as well as referring to the Republic‚ Book IV. In case of being corrupted by bad upbringing (441a)‚ what is Plato’s suggestion/ solution? Explain. Do you think his solution is reasonable? Expand. In book IV Adeimantus wonders that except guardians who have the most power everyone seems happy in the city. According to Socrates in the city there is not such a duty to make rulers or guardians happy in fact their
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with social aspects‚ as opposed to the inner emotions we associate it with today. In Aristotle’s time‚ an individual who had achieved a state of eudaimonia was cheerful and content with life as a result of obtaining success and affluence. Our modern day concept of happiness is the closest equivalent to eudaimonia‚ but because the translation is imprecise‚ the meaning of the text is somewhat affected. Aristotle asserts that "happiness (eudaimonia) is something final and self-sufficient and the
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REPUBLIC ACT No. 3844 AN ACT TO ORDAIN THE AGRICULTURAL LAND REFORM CODE AND TO INSTITUTE LAND REFORMS IN THE PHILIPPINES‚ INCLUDING THE ABOLITION OF TENANCY AND THE CHANNELING OF CAPITAL INTO INDUSTRY‚ PROVIDE FOR THE NECESSARY IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES‚ APPROPRIATE FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES PRELIMINARY CHAPTER TITLE DECLARATION OF POLICY AND COMPOSITION OF CODE Section 1. Title - This Act shall be known as the Agricultural Land Reform Code. Section 2. Declaration of Policy - It is
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The Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic was established in 1919‚ in replace of the imperial government in Germany. It immerged from the November Revolution (1918-1919). Opposing to the parliamentary system which is similar to the British‚ sailors‚ soldiers and workers raised up the rebellion. They elected councils modeled after the October Revolution in the Soviet Union. The workers’ exhaustion starts from far before the revolution. During the World War I‚ Germany made a lot of promissory notes
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Central government also works alongside agencies to help with tax collection. Republican form of government is a political order that was lead by a president. Citizens of the country have the rights to choose their leader through elections. Usually republics are composed by three branches of government: the Executive‚ the Legislative and the Judiciary. The Executive branch is composed of the President and the Vice President who are elected by direct popular vote and serve a term of six years. The Constitution
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Straits of Taiwan has loosened gradually‚ to Taiwanese‚ the unification policy stressed by both the KMT regime and the Chinese government still poses a grave danger of a forced and forcible merger with China. On August 31‚ 1993‚ the People’s Republic of China issued a document titled‚ "The Taiwan Question and the Reunification of China." Circulating in seven languages‚ this diplomatic white paper manifested its intent and ambition of annexing Taiwan through its distortion of history‚ misconstruction
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