foundations of political justice. We are back to Athena, 399 years BC. Plato was highly frustrated by the political, economical and social conditions of the Athenian democratic republic (John, P). The reining government has sentenced to death his mentor, Socrates, for corrupting the young and pledging allegiance to
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Knowledge is not something that we are born with or that we can just create for ourselves. It is something that we must learn through life events, which enable us to better our own knowledge. True opinion is a strong belief that people make in order to represent knowledge that they do not have. According to dictionary.com knowledge is facts, information and skills acquired by a person through experience or education. In the Meno, Plato says true opinion and “knowledge” are two separate ways of knowledge
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Conformity vs Individuality: The Divide in·di·vid·u·al·i·ty: the quality or character of a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from others of the same kind, especially when strongly marked. Individuality is something that sets us aside from the rest. It is a way to be yourself and show off the real you whether its with art, style, or whatever you choose. It is a way to be you, but nowadays people do not know whether they can be themselves without being criticized or even ridiculed
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Jack Arnett Technology in society Controversy: Human Immortality The speculation and realization that within the next 50 years, it is possible to extend human life span indefinitely. The science is progressing faster than we can keep up with, and the very real possibilities are no longer something of science fiction, but rather science fact. There are many things to consider both pro and con on this subject. Some see it as a great achievement in human evolution and part of the natural progression
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persevered against the Nazi war machine. Any person taking a stand against all odds has my handshake. Anwar El Sadat - Third president of Egypt that took the country to a whole new direction of bringing power to the people. He knew there would be a good chance he would be assassinated for trying to bring peace in the region. Martin Luther King Jr. - Greatly influenced by Thoreau and Gandhi for the non-violent movement.
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Symposium typically involved sexual relations with a young boy, in exchange for education in wisdom and virtues. Socrates in The Symposium best explains this notion of ‘platonic’ love. A platonic relationship today can be both hetero and homosexual, though today ‘platonic’ implies there are no sexual relations between the parties. I’ve also found that the dozen or so people in my life that I’m ‘platonically’ in love with and have never had sexual relations with (half of them of women, which doesn’t
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Being able to have complete control of yourself is one of the greatest abilities a person can have according to philosophers. Plato, Socrates, and Marcus Aurelius are great examples of this. Marcus Aurelius especially, because his stoic philosophy is all about moral definitiveness. To be able to be absolutely sure in your moral compass and know that as a person you've been the best you
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results from the act. His view is also a hedonist view, which proposes that the main good is pleasure, whilst the main evil is pain. He therefore proposed that all humans pursue the maximisation of pleasure and minimisation of pain. Bentham believed in the greatest good for the greatest number, and believed that quantity (rather than Mills belief in quality) played the main role in deciding whether an act was good or not, as the one providing most pleasure for most people, whilst providing least
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perfecting human existence. The code that existed for the theorists of the ancients reflects the time that they lived. There is a comforting simplicity that was drawn in ancient ethics and in ideal world these ethics make sense, to me. For instance, Socrates compares human values to the tools of a carpenter, a carpenter must not only possess such tools, but he must know how to use his tools, in order to be successful (Euthyd. 280b-d) I love the idea of values being tools. Tools exist to build, our values
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Philosophy aims at knowledge that combines a variety of academic fields as well as convictions, prejudices and beliefs. Different definitions can show how to solve epistemological problems. One ability philosophy depicts is a person can have good reasoning and critical thinking skills. It does helps us understand ourselves better however there can be many debates on understanding the universe from one’s personal perspective. Through science, philosophy helps us understand the physical world (the
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