Karl Marx and Plato are two names heard all across the world. Their names ring in halls of philosophy everywhere‚ and their ideas run rampant in the heads of bright young thinkers. Karl Marx was a very prominent and influential philosopher from Germany. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues‚ he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles‚ made very evident in his book titled The Communist Manifesto. Marx took a very strong stand against social oppression and was
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One of the most influential minds in western philosophy is of Plato. Plato lived from 422-347 B.C‚ was born into an aristocratic family in the city of Athens. He was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. Plato followed the basic ideas of Socrates‚ in which no laws are to be broken despite their relevance. He makes clear why laws should be followed and why disobedience to the law is rarely justified. Plato is considered a very essential figure in the contribution of philosophy and an
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Plato and Aristotle have similar beliefs about the soul being connected to the human body‚ and that man is not inherently evil. Yes both of them are genius and lived in the same time. In ideas‚ they are quite different since Plato is idealistic and Aristotle is realistic. The similarity would be in their subject matter. Both of them are explaining their theories regarding the backbone of what we are now Plato believed that a soul transmigrated until it was able to free itself from physical form
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Explain the Platonic concept for “forms” Plato was a pupil of the philosopher Socrates‚ who was murdered for corrupting the youth of the city; he had been encouraging people to challenge the views and opinions of the city elders. Plato came up with an allegory of the cave‚ to explain the world we live in. the allegory suggested that people are ‘philosophically ignorant’ and are like the prisoners chained the floor of the cave. They can only see the shadows on the back of the cave; they are assuming
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In the Republic‚ Plato describes
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metaphysics. Following the comparison‚ I will discuss the differences with a knowledge theory between a ratiocinative Hellenistic view and an intuition-based Doaist position. II- Metaphysical Dualism Plato‚ a student of Socrates Johnson‚ rejected* Socrates aspiration of political life after his death. While Plato was interested in Socrates’s Ethical worldview‚ he had more of an influence towards other Philosophical disciplines. The heart of Plato’s philosophy steamed in the Republic and created a two world
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As a significant subject of formal study‚ rhetoric has played a crucial role in the Western tradition in the past many decades. There are two famous people—Plato and Aristotle that have made huge contributions on developing Rhetoric and delivering the concept of rhetoric from different perspectives. As comparing the view of Aristotle and Plato on rhetoric‚ it obvious that Aristotle builds on Plato’s views to some extent;
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One such argument for Plato was the argument for knowledge as recollection‚ as stated in the Phaedo: “[…] recollection is most commonly a process of recovering that which has already been forgotten through time and inattention.”1 Drawing from this argument‚ Plato suggests that anything which is known of the immaterial world of forms must have been learned through recollection. In A History of Philosophy‚ Frederick Copleston summarizes Plato in stating‚ “We discover [forms]: they
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well known section of Plato’s The Republic. Plato tells a story of prisoners in a cave with no mobility and the only thing they can see are shadows cast by figures behind them. One day one of the prisoners is shown around the cave and has the shadows explained to him‚ he is then taken out in to the world above to be shown real figures and objects in the world. These three stages were written to represent three different stages in our mental development. Plato believed that the highest level of education
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studies in Plato and Aristotle. This child‚ John Calvin‚ became simply known as “the theologian” by many reformers including Martin Luther; used his background in philosophy to help explain the depths of biblical truths and‚ refine the reformer’s beliefs. John Calvin (Jean Cauvin) was born on July 10‚ 1509 in Nonyon near
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