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    Plato‚ student of Socrates‚ and Aristotle‚ student of Plato‚ two of the most influential philosophers to have ever walked the earth‚ take two completely different approaches whilst talking about the formation of city states and epistemology itself. Plato primarily defined the nature of things in theoretical terms through metaphysics‚ in contrast to actual terms. Thus by looking to the ’higher forms’ he aimed to explain the function of existing knowledge and understandings in the search for the ’absolute

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    Life Is Good

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    poem is about? Submit Report Poem Stream Nightingale Midnights Voice Its been so long since its been used Who would want to? its battered and bruised... And it always leaves her so confused... She starts to flip the pages Coming to one of her many life stages But this one is the one that causes all the pain She rips out the page The feeling is like being set free Out of a cage She loves it She keeps ripping And tearing It’s like sipping Water after you’ve had none Top 500 Poems Phenomenal Woman

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    What is the Good life? How does one achieve the good life? Is the good life attainable for all people? These questions were all juggled by Socrates in Ancient Greece between 300-400 BCE. Socrates was known for being a great speaker and being able to get his point across to those who listened. Socrates’ knowledge formed the basis for the start of his prodigy Plato‚ who went on to be a famous philosopher of his own right. In The Apology‚ Socrates’ idea of the Good Life is detailed through The Socratic

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    There were many great philosophers who have contributed in making philosophy what it is today‚ one of them being Plato. In addition to being an outstanding philosopher‚ he was also a mathematician and a writer. One of Plato’s biggest inspirations was his very own teacher Socrates. Socrates never wrote down a word of what he said‚ but thankfully Plato was able to record it all down for him and wrote many dialogues about Socrates words and teachings. One of Plato’s most famous works was his dialogue

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    Plato was an Ancient Greek philosopher whose writings and theories have greatly influenced the development of Western philosophy. Perhaps his most famous theory is that of the Forms - pure ideas or concepts of what a THING is. It was Plato’s belief that as well as this world‚ the material world - or the world of Appearances‚ as he called it - there exists another dimension‚ where the true Forms of everything in the material world reside; Reality‚ or the realm of the Forms. A Form‚ by Plato’s reckoning

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    an expression of character whereby the poet (using dialogue) and the actor (in a dramatic presentation) imitate a character. Furthermore‚ where that imitated character has undesirable traits‚ the imitation is to be avoided. And later‚ in Book X‚ Plato claims that most poetry of necessity contains evil men (in order to produce interest and pleasure)‚ and this too forms a basis for a wide-ranging condemnation of poetry. That imitation has harmful effects is a complex matter; Plato’s argument rests

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    Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/;[1] Greek: Πλάτων‚ Plátōn‚ "broad";[2] 428/427 or 424/423 BCE[a] – 348/347 BCE) was a philosopher‚ as well as mathematician‚ in Classical Greece‚ and an influential figure in philosophy‚ central in Western philosophy. He was Socrates’ student‚ and founded the Academy in Athens‚ the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with Socrates and his most famous student‚ Aristotle‚ Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.[3] Alfred

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    In the allegory of the cave‚ Plato describes several men who have been chained all their lives with only a wall in front of them in which shadows are displayed and only echoes are heard. These men believe these shadows and echoes to be the totality of real things in the world without any inclination to question the veracity of their perception. Once one of them is released from the chains and comes out of the cave‚ he is welcomed into a new reality‚ one that supersedes the misapprehension of the

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    PHI2000 The Good Life

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    U10a1 The Good Life PHI 2000 Ethics December 2011 Studies about the Good Life What I learned from Plato‚ Aristotle‚ Augustine‚ and Frankl Aristotle believes that one’s accomplishments in being happy are the driving force to a “Good Life”. The good life creates a happiness that relates to one functioning well and reason. Aristotle believes that it takes time‚ hard work and restraint to get to the employ the habits of reasoning and according to him everything has a purpose

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    PLATO 1. Plato’s parents were Ariston and Perictone‚ his older brothers were Adeimantus and Glaucon‚ and his younger sister was Potone. He came from a family that had long played an important part in Athenian politics. He was born from an aristoctratic and wealthy family. 2. Plato wrote mostly in the form of dialogue. His dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects‚ including philosophy‚ logic‚ ethics‚ rhetoric‚ religion and mathematics. Plato absorbed the learning of his times‚ - Philolaus

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