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    24 August 2011 Plato ’s influence There are icons that will be referenced for many years to come. They touched on many topics (including physics‚ metaphysics‚ poetry‚ theater‚ music‚ logic‚ rhetoric‚ politics‚ government‚ ethics‚ etc.)‚ which influenced their philosophy. However‚ as humans start using more and more of their abilities or capabilities to think and having more resources to prove things‚ their philosophy may take a back seat to current thinking. Plato is one of the world’s

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    above all else as it was the single greatest happiness of the entire human race (Plato 22). Throughout Aristophanes’ argument‚ he alludes to a myth regarding the creation of humans from the humanoids that were eventually cut into two halves as punishment from the gods (Plato 23). The once complete humanoids were without their other halves; thus‚ they were no longer whole and did not reap the benefits of feeling whole (Plato 23). Aristophanes concluded that after finding our other halves‚ humans would

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    Introduction Plato expounded his Theory of Forms over a writing career of some forty years. The theory was being refined over this period and is never fully explained in any one dialogue. Thus‚ any explanation of the theory‚ involves piecing together fragments as they appear throughout Plato’s writings‚ and recasting the earlier statements in the light of the metaphysical framework developed in the later works. General Statement of the Theory of Forms The theory basically claims the existence

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    Human nature is constructed to aim for something good at the end of every act. Every human aims at achieving the happiness as an end result. That is the reason why in this paper‚ I will argue that Aristotle’s theory‚ Nicomachean Ethics‚ is the most plausible theory in describing human nature and answering the question of how one should live in order to attain happiness. According to Aristotle all the human activities are directed towards a final end‚ which he claims to be the happiness. He also claims

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    (a) Describe Plato’s views on Goodness (25) 24th September 2013 Plato is unable to tell us exactly what the Form of The Good is‚ but he does tell us that it is the source of intelligibility and of our capacity to know. According to Plato‚ the Forms were in close relation with one another‚ ascending a hierarchal pyramid‚ with the ’illusions’ or material objects at the base of it. In this system‚ there is

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    He addresses that “the city really belongs to them‚ yet they derive no good from it” (Plato 95 [IV. 419]). The guardians govern and guide their city and the rest of the city’s residents‚ but gain nothing that is tangible in return for their service. Adeimantus remains adamant about defending the guardians potential for unhappiness when continuing

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    Aristocles‚ but the world recognizes him as Plato. He was born around 428 B.C. in Athens‚ Greece‚ and has been regarded greatly for his significant contributions to Ancient Greece and western philosophy. He grew up during the midst of the Peloponnesian War‚ when Sparta defeated Athens‚ and formulated several of his theories at the end of the war. Both his parents came from Greek aristocracy‚ which allowed him to be heavily educated in vast subjects. This helped Plato establish a firm foundation on the importance

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    the cave are supposed to parallel everyday people in the sense of how reality is perceived. The prisoners of the cave believed and only knew that reality of the shadows and developed their own belief structure and way of processing that information. Plato connected that to everyday people due to the fact that although we strongly believe the reality we have made for ourselves‚ there can be more that we have never been exposed to. For example‚ when one of the prisoners were unchained and brought out

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    THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE By Plato The well-known myth of the cavern‚ is used by Plato as an allegorical explanation of the situation in which the man is in regard to the knowledge that surrounds him. Plato divided this allegory in three parts: 1. Description of the situation of the prisoners in the cavern. 2. Description of the process of liberation of one of them and of his access to the top or real world. 3. Brief interpretation of the myth. Plato asks us to imagine that we are like a few prisoners

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    philosophical analysis will compare and contrast the non-rational elements of political power that are defined in The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes‚ and The Republic by Plato. These non-rational views will define how non-rational ideologies can subvert or maintain existing political structures by evaluating the natural order of human hierarchies. Plato defines the appetite for desire as a lower order form of the tripartite soul‚ which has reasoning and sprit as higher order functions in the human ability to

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