One of the most well known and influential political philosophers is Hannah Arendt. Most of Hannah Arendt’s thoughts apply to totalitarianism, revolution, the nature of freedom and the faculties of thought and judgement. The power and innovative thought process is noticeable in many of her works, for example The origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, On Revolution, The Life of the Mind, and a variety of her other essays. The majority of these works focused on important political events
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The term rhetoric has a negative connotation in our culture today. Often after a commentator or politician gives an interview in the media, he will be criticized for using rhetoric, meaning that he has distorted the truth in order to persuade people to his side of an issue. Because of this definition of rhetoric, some may question whether this style of writing should be taught in an academic writing course. On further investigation however, the term rhetoric is confused with the term sophistry
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Archimedes: History's Greatest Genius “By gently pulling with his hand the end of a system of pulleys, he dragged it towards him with as smooth and even a motion as if it were passing over the sea” (Beck 134). This is from an excerpt in a writing by Plutarch, describing Archimedes and his system to lift a boat full of men and cargo. Archimedes was a philosopher, a scientist, and a mathematician. He was from Syracuse, Sicily, and his intelligence allowed for him to go beyond every other philosopher
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“The walls of pride are high and wide Can't see over to the other side” Bob Dylan-"Cold Irons Bound", Time Out of Mind Pride plays a prominent role in the myths of “Prometheus”,“The Archer and the Moon Goddess”, as well as “Nanabush Creates the World”. Though the excess of pride is almost universally condemned, in the myth "Prometheus" however, although it leads to Prometheus's suffering, his excessive pride and defiance are clearly praised, though, perhaps, with some reservations. In the
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his opinion about what the road is, but has not gone there, nor knows the road, would he not also direct them rightly?” (68). Plato sees knowledge as an interlocking of true opinions that are subject to a thorough process to achieve its validity when challenged by doubt. Plato explains that recollection helps one acquire episteme and its most basic aspects of reality. Plato explains that although ortho doxa gives you the same outcome as episteme, it however differs, from episteme since it is not grounded
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the puppeteer. After all, the government gives companies a lot of money to write books and create tests to aid students in learning. People not noticing this makes one wonder if the puppeteers of the present are far more sophisticated than the ones Plato conceived. Creating a cave within the cave and allowing people to exit the first one, would indeed prompt them to accept the second cave as the real world. If a bird escapes a cage, it would think that it is free, it wouldn’t think that the room is
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A virtue is a habit that needs to be practiced in order to help us grow closer to God. The Cardinal Virtues are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. They are acquired by education and good actions. They call us to be prudent in our decisions, just in our dealings with others, be temperate in our use of things, and have a strong determination to do what is right. I chose Justice and it means respecting the rights of others. It gives up the determination to protect those rights and to fulfill
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On Attaining the Epicurean Ataraxia Being viewed as the key to authentic happiness in Epicurean philosophy, ataraxia is the tranquil state of mind freed from any pain, fear and disturbances that gives rise to our katastematic(still) pleasures. In particular, this essay will argue that the Epicurean ataraxia could be achieved by fearlessness, self-sufficiency and living a private life with friends. Each of the three points of my thesis will structure as an individual section, containing within the
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that there is an innate knowledge. We have ideas on certain things before we experience them. On the other hand, Empiricists believed that knowledge comes from experience. Whenever we experience something, there we get the knowledge. According to Plato, we have innate ideas. They are buried in the depth of our soul. Senses are only used to jog are memories about certain things. In the Allegory of the Cave, it shows that we, humans, are contented on what we see. We lack courage to know and explore
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From Plato’s Book VII of The Republic, “The Allegory of the Cave”, he talks about the prisoners in the cave. Those who get used to see the shadow in the cave believe these are the truth. Once they were set free, they may take the real images to illusions. It reminds me of the Chinese idioms, it is about a frog who always living at the bottom of a well. He is only able to see the little patch of sky above and he believes this is the real sky. It is often used as metaphors for a person with a limited
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