Meno begins his quest to have Socrates explain virtue by nature by stating that having beautiful things is to have virtue. “So I say that virtue is to desire beautiful things and have the power to acquire them” (77b). To help him to understand that this statement is not complete‚ Socrates inquires about specific characteristics that might comprise having something beautiful. These characteristics include wealth‚ a position of honor‚ justice‚ and the pursuit of happiness. Only in perfect combination
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One of the core concepts that Plato attempts to communicate in his books is the topic of “The Forms”‚ which are an ideal set of characteristics that exist in the soul. Socrates believes that Justice is a form and that a just individual is ultimately happier than an unjust one. In book one of Plato’s Republic‚ a Sophist philosopher called Thrasymachus challenges Socrates’s beliefs on justice by claiming that happiness is the practice of pleonexia‚ which is the act of the stronger being “getting more”
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Great Migrations in History The Creation of Israel 1948 The distance characteristics for this specific migration varied greatly; there was people coming from everywhere just to go to the new land of Israel. There were people that were Holocaust survivors looking for a new home‚ Jews fleeing from Arab lands‚ and more. Usually when you migrated at this time period you went on foot. You can imagine how hard it is to travel like that: scarce of food
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In every creation myth there are motifs. Motifs are things that are repeated from one creation to another generally speaking it’s something happening in one myth also happening in many other myths. All motifs are all equally important to their myths but there are three that stand out to me as important that I am prepared to tell you about. Those three are destruction‚ multiple attempts‚ and organic material. When I say destruction that means of course something being destroyed but the reason for
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Apology by Plato tells a story of Socrates‚ who was being accused of teaching others for a fee‚ corrupting the young and not believing in the gods. He asks the court to allow him to defend himself in his normal speaking manner because he had never been in a courtroom. Socrates starts by denying the charges against him. He claims that he has never asked for money from other people. He argued that young rich people with nothing to do would follow him and imitate his interviews of well-known wise people
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CHAPTER 5 STATES OF MATTER INTERMOLECULAR FORCES Intermolecular forces are the forces of attraction and repulsion between interacting particles (atoms and molecules). Attractive intermolecular forces are known as van der Waals forces. van der Waals forces include dispersion forces or London forces‚ dipole-dipole forces‚ and dipole-induced dipole forces. A particularly strong type of dipole-dipole interaction is hydrogen bonding. Dispersion Forces or London Forces Observed between non-polar molecules
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Family Matters Families are an important part of society. They not only teach us how to have close interpersonal relationships‚ but they perpetuate our genealogy‚ and help to give value to our self-worth and existence. As depicted in the Disney film “The Lion King”‚ the circle of life allows us as families to learn and grow relationships‚ and pass the knowledge we learned of the past and the present‚ to our future family generations‚ and to carry on our family name. Many would consider this the
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The point that Plato is trying to make is that everybody is capable of learning; however‚ the only way we will actually learn is if we turn our whole body and look at the sun. When Plato says that the only way to turn from darkness to light is by "turning the whole body"(Plato‚ trans C.D.C Reeve‚ Hacket‚ 1999‚ p.212)‚ he means that we must turn our soul to the light. When we turn to the light‚ it will help us gain knowledge‚ and it can make our soul healthy. With a healthy soul‚ our life force is
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founder becomes much clearer. Plato promotes the concept of philosopher-kings who rule over his imagined Utopian society‚ while Machiavelli endorses a ruthless and at times amoral prince whose primary objective is the preservation of the state. Plato’s view of human nature can be seen when considering his view of the soul‚ which‚ according to him‚ is comprised of three distinct parts; one of reason‚ one of appetite‚ and one of spirit. One’s inclination towards a particular part of the soul
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Chapter II Light and Matter The Inner Workings of the Cosmos 2.4 The Distribution of Radiation All microscopic objects – fires‚ cubes‚ people‚ and stars – emit radiation at all times. They radiate because the microscopic charged particles in them are in constant random motion‚ and whenever charges change their state of motion‚ electromagnetic radiation is emitted. The temperature of an object is a direct measure of the amount of microscopic motion within it. The hotter the object
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