In Aristotle’s “Nichomachean Ethics‚” he provides insight on how one achieves eudaimonia‚ which is Greek for happiness. In other words‚ achieving happiness is the end goal for every human being‚ but how one achieves it is different. Aristotle does not list out a set of rules on how one should behave‚ but rather focuses on what type of a person one would like to be. The highest good is described as‚ but are not limited to‚ to being temperate and successful‚ and also self-fulfillment. A virtuous person
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Summary of “Allegory of the Cave” When I first saw the word “allegory” in the title I assumed there was a hidden meaning behind Plato’s piece of writing. For example‚ the chain holding the prisoners up where they can only look in on“Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is a story that formats like a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon. Plato writes about Socrates describing a cave with prisoners that have been there since birth. The prisoners had their legs and necks chained behind a wall‚ where
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Aristotle’s point of view of a tragic hero sort of sounds like a movie‚ or a sad book story. Ancient greek myths‚ like Anitgone’s story was all fake and made up for an audience‚ Aristotle has never lived in our day and age. Not a lot of people who are ranked high in the world do not necessarily come down from their reign. Their lives are a dream come true. There are some cases where people who are or were famous have tragic things happen that can put them down‚ probably not to the extent of death
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Aristotle’s Definition of Nature Nature‚ in its essence‚ is the cause/effect relationship offered to things with ascertainable objectivity‚ occurring without cause. From this we can logically state that the nature of something (something being an object with "thinghood"‚ as humorously described in class) is its beginning‚ purpose and stereo-type. There are two debatable definitions of nature‚ which under scrutiny are seemingly very similar. On the left hand‚ we have nature described
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In Aristotle’s book 1 of his Nicomachean Ethics he says that there has always been a significant comparison with the relationship with how well you are doing in life along with your well being and this relating back to happiness. (4). This is to say the idea that men or people generally find their happiness in what we have or more so what we have achieved in life and what we consider our significant accomplishments. This idea is looking at the aspects of life that most of us see on the outside
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insight into the educational theories of Socrates. It is rather difficult to gain any information from first hand written accounts of Socrates work as he hardly ever took down notes and the only accounts that have stood the test of time are those that were documented by Plato‚ a student of Socrates. In actual fact most of what we know is from later people such as Aristophanes‚ Xenophen‚ Plato and Aristotle. These accounts are what have been formulated into Socrates theories. This poses some questions
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Unit 2 Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” Assignment Blanca Peterson Kaplan University HU250 The Allegory of the Cave is a deep theoretical philosophical scenario that is being described by Plato in the form of a progressive conversation which begins with Socrates having a fictitious conversation with his brother Glaucon. The conversation between both brothers deals with the lack of knowledge of humanity and the ethics that society has created. This story envelops the reality that comes
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Plato’s imperfection argument is concerned with the existence of forms and our possession of priori concepts that is knowledge that is not gained from empirical evidence but rather through deduction. Plato basis the argument on the imperfection of sensible objects and how we make judgments about them. He denotes the forms to being the perfect object and stresses that the sensible ones are only imperfectly approximate meaning although they seem holistic they are lacking. He focuses on the form of
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Socrates is a man who deeply believes in his teachings. To search for truth in your beliefs leads to virtuous beliefs. It would not have been virtuous to flee the trial. IF you read his speech you see that he wanted them to learn from this trail. He wanted them to know that these charges were brought by vengeful people and that they were a lie. He believed that the jurors would see the truth in his statement. He did not take money for his time‚ he did not incite the young men (they did that for
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eternal and perfect idea of what a thing is. The world of the forms‚ to Plato is the only realm where true knowledge lies‚ Plato defined this as the realm of reality; this could in fact be trusted unlike our own world. There are a few reasons to Plato as to why The Forms exist‚ and these reasons are present through his work for example through The Theory of Recollection‚ and The Imperfection Argument. But several philosophers have critiqued Plato’s notion and they argued Plato’s arguments are actually
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