been valuable in the beginning‚ it has long since outlived any usefulness it may have had. That it ever had any usefulness is questionable‚ based on comparisons between overall black populations socioeconomic standing today and that of the mid-1960’s. Today‚ it is little more than a scapegoat behind which inferior performance can hid very well‚ and that scapegoat’s upkeep has become far too extravagant in today’s society. “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock my brothers and sisters--Plymouth
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The Greek Philosopher Plato Plato was born in 429 B.C.E. and died in 347 B.C.E. he was one of the classical Greek philosopher who was also mathematician. He was one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition one of the most penetrating‚ wide-ranging‚ and influential authors in the history of philosophy‚ Kraut (2004). Plato travel for many years studying under his teacher Socrates learning from him. He wrote dialogues between Socrates and the other explores who traveled with
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Plato’s republican Plato is very clearly a feminist although he does not hold women completely equal to men. In fact Plato states that the majority of women are inferior to all men‚ but not all women were inferior. Plato was indeed a feminist‚ but his feminist views were as a result of decisions made for what he thought was in best interest of the good city. A feminist is a described as an advocate for women’s rights and legal protection. Within book V of the Republic‚ Plato advocates equality
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Socrates 469 BC–399 BC‚ was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy‚ he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers‚ especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon‚ and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato’s dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity. Through his portrayal in Plato’s dialogues‚ Socrates has become renowned
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forms is unconvincing discuss Plato was a duellist and thus believed that there are two worlds; the material world and the world of ideas/Forms. The world of ideas or Forms is the true reality and the world of appearances is just reflections of world of Forms. Plato believed that our knowledge of the Forms was a priori which means that our souls knew the Forms before it was inside us‚ therefore we have knowledge prior to experiencing the objects with our senses. Plato believes everyone is born with
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In “The allegory of the Cave” Plato argues that education is not a matter of making the blind to see but of turning the learner “in the right direction.” What he means by this is that education is not about feeding someone information and expecting them to take it as the truth. It is about encouraging them to seek out the truths in the world around them‚ and helping them acquire the tools to do so. This point is extremely relevant to education today‚ which is mostly about test scores‚ and textbooks
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave The “Allegory of the Cave” starts off as a story told by Socrates to Glaucon. In this story‚ a group of people live in a cave underground. They are bound and unable to move or turn their heads‚ and so can only look straight in front of them. Before them is a wall and behind them a fire burns. Others in the cave pass before the fire holding
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After obtaining knowledge from the Matrix‚ Plato’s Allegory of the Cave or The Republic and the first Mediation from Descartes‚ I see that there are a few likenesses and contrasts. I would need to say that The Matrix and Plato’s hole purposeful tale were more comparable because the individuals included in both stories‚ they existed in this present reality where they were being cheated about what the fact of the matter was. In the Matrix‚ once Neo saw this present reality and that all that he thought
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it is here were a man commonly known as Plato (true name Aristocles) begins to write brilliant philosophical dialogues‚ sparked by the state mandated execution of his teacher Socrates. It was in this moment Plato etched his name in to the physique of humanity‚ as one of the greatest philosophers in history‚ it was at a midpoint of his career when he wrote what is arguably his greatest work The Republic; this will be our subject of Review. In the Republic Plato (Aristocles) uses the character of Socrates
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sense that gender and race play a large role in how people perceive one another. Whether or not it is fair does not matter as that is a separate topic entirely‚ but this is a serious issue that is present even today. The main characters in the texts Susan Sontag’s “Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?”‚ Joan Didion’s “On Self-Respect”‚ and James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” have all experienced to varying degrees some sort
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