Practical Philosophy November 2001 Plato’s theory of Love: Rationality as Passion Lydia Amir 'I … profess to understand nothing but matters of love.' Socrates in Plato’s Symposium. times, when due to their education and to political changes, women earned the right to love and to be loved as equals to men. When one dispels these misunderstandings related to the popular notion of Platonic love, one finds a great richness and depth in Plato’s theory of love. In explaining why love is so important
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Moral Obligation In the "Crito" written by Plato, the argument of whether or not it is morally right to escape prison is in question. At the beginning of the dialogue, Crito offers Socrates an escape though Socrates has already made up his mind and quickly refuses this opportunity. For Socrates believes that though he may have been convicted for the wrong reasons, the laws are just. In this essay, I will examine both arguments given by Crito and Socrates. Crito does not start with very strong
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community and improve it because they are blessed with better education and are able to enjoy a different reward than the power to control others like most politicians do. Two thousand years after Plato has written down the allegory, it is amazing how we can still relate it to our everyday lives. As Plato wrote in "The Allegory of the Cave," education is a very important phase that leads us to wisdom and helps us to get accustomed to the real world with less difficulty. Apparently, this theory has
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their illusion. - See more at: http://www.bachelorandmaster.com/creationofknowledge/allegory-of-the-cave.html#.Vm1VcUp961s Plato also talks about an ideal state, which is a utopian world. In an ideal state, there is equality among the people because no one is superior or inferior in this world. There is free flow of knowledge justice and truth, everywhere in the ideal state. Plato is also known as the first communist because of his concept of equality among the people. In the ideal state, rulers are
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Latonya Williams Ethics/Professor Benjamin Buckley Writing Assignment 1/ Plato, Critio August 25, 2015 Socrates is sentenced to execution for going against the Athenians’ Law. The setting of this conversation is in Socrates’ prison cell. While waiting for the day of his execution, he is visited by his friend Crito. Crito’s motive is to convince Socrates to escape prison by presenting arguments of why Socrates should go against his sentence. His argument on a real-world level is more geared
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015 2 Question One Compare and contrast The Matrix with the readings from Plato and Descartes. What are some similarities and differences? The Matrix describes a fictitious possibility of a virtual existence of the world and especially the world’s human population, unbeknownst by the majority of people involved in the
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Pool by Corey Campbell There are different perceptions on what the good life is. In the short story there is two different perspectives of what the good life is. Just like the real word, are their different perspectives on what the good life are. We have the main character Darla, who doesn’t want to live the normally good life, she doesn’t think a man, a kid and a nice house can make her happy. She is in a relationship with a guy called Jon, but she doesn’t appreciate their relationship. On the
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who was best known for his book Leviathan and his political views on society. Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher, who was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, explored justice, beauty, and equality, and among many other topics. There are many common topics available to compare and contrast Thomas Hobbes and Plato. Although one point that has to be made clear is that, they share similar ideologies. Between Plato and Hobbes, there are many differences, however one of these differences is
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Socrates talks about how contraries are generated by contraries. Everything, he says, comes to be from out of its opposite, so an example he mention was “to sleep and to be awake; to be awake comes from sleeping, and to sleep comes from being awake” 71d. This implies that there is a cycle of life and death, so that when we die we do not stay dead, but we come back to life eventually. The second idea that Socrates mentions is Recollection. This theory is that learning is a matter of recollecting what
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D Ajith Reddy Professor Sami Ahmad Khan English-I 10 November 2016 The Active Procrastination Procrastinating is better than spending time stressing out one’s self. The world has long regarded procrastination as a self-handicapping and dysfunctional behaviour but if we look into the books of history, procrastination was not considered a bad thing. The Greeks and Romans considered it as a noble thing and the rulers/Kings were expected to sit around and literally do nothing till something needed their
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