The Republic Summary In reading Plato's The Republic, learning to appreciate works from around 366 BC in sch a modern 21st Century world is a quite wonderful and informative privilege. ... There are a handful of characters in this book, although not all are presented in these four books. ... Socrates, a major character, is believed to be the most influential philosopher of Plato. Adeimantus and Glaucon, brothers of Plato, are loquacious contributors in Plato's book. Both brothers are favored equally and received much respect from Plato. ...

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ESSAY FOR THE SELECTIONS FROM BOOK II OF PLATO"S REPUBLIC I think that Plato believed history had little significance. ... In Plato's Republic, Plato talked about censorship. ... Some history books I've seen sugarcoat the truth in the name of political correctness. ... We can not use the term "men," because the history books must to be "politically correct" these days. ... I strongly disagree with Plato's doctrine regarding the treatment of history. ...

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Plato is the founder of political philosophy. The Republic is the first attempt to give a thorough and systematic account of how the common life of women and men ought to be structured. ... The Republic is more than a work on politics in our narrower sense of the term. ... It is one of the relatively few books, philosophical or otherwise, that attempts a complete account of human life - of what it means to be a human being living well or living poorly. ... The Republic has all these characteristics because Plato perceived himself and his society to be in the midst of an acute and deadly crisi...

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Which individual or group in the Republic is the freest, and why? ... In the Republic it seems like the best definition of freedom is the lack of responsibility to one's society. ... The question of Which individual or group in the Republic is the freest, and why? ... The Republic of Plato, trans. ... New York: Basic Books. ...

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He thought the notion of a better life after death furnished the grounds for the deprecation of this life Zarathustra's speech "On Free Death" raises questions concerning both freedom and determinism with respect to one's conduct toward finitude. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra and other writings, Niet...

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PLATO AND CONFUCIUS By Brent Monroe Pergram Platos ideal regime achieves justice by controlling individuals and their desires by setting down a compact to not tolerate injustice or suffering. ... He believed that just men, who were the pupils of the philosopher would not disobey them but join in the labors of the city.(520d) To him justice is not ones own good, but the common good of the Republic. ... Plato therefore believed that the intellegent educated philosopher knew the truth and therefore would be just. ... To Plato only the philosophy class would have the knowledge to ru...

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Recorded long after Plato's death, "The Great Dialogues of Plato" have been passed through time orally. Plato's dialogues were spoken even before the birth of Jesus Christ, between Plato's birth in 427 B.C. and his death in 347 B.C. ... There is evidence in Book II of "The Republic" supporting the idea that Greeks are polytheistic. ... The issue of the origin of music and gymnastics is addressed in "The Republic". ... [they are] thought to be just..." 9 "The Republic" is comprised ten books, in which some form of a constitution is mentioned many times. ...

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Maxim Ethics: Plato's Rules to Obtain the Good Life Plato describes ethical maxims through stories, parables, and examples in the Republic. The people that are used as examples throughout the Republic are segregated into three groups: gold, which are the rulers of the city, silver, which represent the guardians, and bronze which signify the commoners. ... In Book II through VII of the Republic, Socrates talks about the guardians of the Luxurious City. ... Plato tells through ten books of the Republic, what the maxims are in each class to living the good life. ...

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Maxim Ethics: Plato's Rules to Obtain the Good Life Plato describes ethical maxims through stories, parables, and examples in the Republic. The people that are used as examples throughout the Republic are segregated into three groups: gold, which are the rulers of the city, silver, which represent the guardians, and bronze which signify the commoners. ... In Book II through VII of the Republic, Socrates talks about the guardians of the Luxurious City. ... Plato tells through ten books of the Republic, what the maxims are in each class to living the good life. ...

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Maxim Ethics: Plato's Rules to Obtain the Good Life Plato describes ethical maxims through stories, parables, and examples in the Republic. The people that are used as examples throughout the Republic are segregated into three groups: gold, which are the rulers of the city, silver, which represent the guardians, and bronze which signify the commoners. ... In Book II through VII of the Republic, Socrates talks about the guardians of the Luxurious City. ... Plato tells through ten books of the Republic, what the maxims are in each class to living the good life. ...

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Plato was one of the greatest philosophers to ever live. Throughout his lifetime he wrote many books, one entitled The Republic: Book X, which deals with his opinion of the perfect society. ... Plato felt art was useless in society and far from the truth. ... Plato believed that any form of art was truth less. ... Plato's ideas about truth begin with nature. ...

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Plato was one of the greatest philosophers to ever live. Throughout his lifetime he wrote many books, one entitled The Republic: Book X, which deals with his opinion of the perfect society. ... Plato felt art was useless in society and far from the truth. ... Plato believed that any form of art was truth less. ... Plato's ideas about truth begin with nature. ...

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In his book, Meno, Plato tries to give a definition to virtue. ... Plato tries to explain what justice is in his other work, The Republic. ... Class has always played a large role in how people perceive justice and virtue, which Plato also writes about in The Republic. ... Very rarely does anyone have the same interpretations of books, ideas, and experiences. In his allegory of the cave in The Republic Plato talks about enlightenment, but fails to acknowledge that a person can attain such enlightenment through their own personal experience. ...

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-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... Spartan Influence on Plato's Scheme of Education: In his scheme of education Plato was greatly influenced by Spartan system of education. ... Plato's Theory of Education: Plato sees in education the only true way to the permanent stability of the state. ... He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... However education in the Republic is exclusively meant for those...

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Plato What comes to mind when you hear the name Plato? Well you probably think Plato is just another bizarre name printed in our history books. ... He believed that government officials should be "philosopher kings" so he developed a course of study mainly about abstract thought for their education that is found in Plato's Republic. The Republic discusses the nature of justice and the institutions of society. ... Plato wrote one of the most known pieces of Greek literature, The Republic which discusses the nature of justice and the institutions of society. ...

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Guy Montag and his fellow fireman pillage homes for books to burn to create a bookless society. ... "Would you like, someday, Montag, to read Plato's Republic?.. I am Plato's Republic... ... Montag seems enthusiastic to learn the philosophies of life through the authors of books. ... "Do you ever read any of the books you burn" (Bradbury 12). ...

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This has resulted in value judgement, particularly to the non-great-books. ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods and heroes. He condemns much of this poetry as lies, "and still further because their lies are not attractive" (Republic, II, p24). Many stories, Plato is saying, are not imitations of any reality but are outright falsities, on the grounds that since gods and heroes are by definition better than men, they cannot perform such atrocious acts as shown for example in Homer and Aeschylus (the examples in Republic 26-...

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Time spent not pushing the republic toward success as he sees it would be time spent ultimately pushing the republic closer to succumbing to failure. ... When thoughts of "justice" were pondered in Ancient Greece, early students of Socrates accepted actions that were to the benefit of friends and detriment of enemies as the standard definition of justice (Plato I.332b). ... If freedom is a republic's greatest possession, then ingratitude is the republic's most superior defense against those who will make attempts to steal it away. ... What we ultimately see in Machiavelli&#...

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Plato, the great Greek philosopher, further expounds on the procedure of how reason effects will in his books, The Republic and Phaedrus. In the Republic, he makes the case that the person's soul is divided into three parts, the rational, the spirited and the appetitive; all of these have a certain desire that they follow. ... Since it sounds confusing and complicated, Plato uses an allegory to clarify the details. In Phaedrus, Plato explains that the three parts are like parts of a chariot: the charioteer, the white and the black horse. ... Each part has a say in where the chariot goes,...

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As a result, humanism was reflected in all types of literary works; rhetorical pieces, poetry, historical accounts, and even books on education and daily life. ... Neoplatonism during the Renaissance was a revival of Platonism, a dualistic philosophy based on Plato's Republic. In this book, Plato categorized the world into two realms, one of visible reality and another of intelligible reality, and four separate levels of knowledge. ... Neoplatonism was a resurgence of these Platonic ideas, but humanistic thinkers attempted to integrate Christianity and philosophy into a harmonious theolo...

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Therefore, through this structured environment, a philosophical question can be addressed which is how do people perceive reality and how can Truman's reality be compared to Plato's Allegory of the Cave. ... The Truman Show can be best based from Plato's most famous dialogue, The Republic. Contained in this dialogue are numerous books that describe many of Plato's philosophies, but most specifically the Allegory of the Cave. ... Plato illustrates in his dialogue human beings in an underground den, with an opening at one end that leads to the outside light. ...

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At several points, the Politics looks back to the conception of the highest human good worked out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the concluding chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics (X.9) looks forward to the Politics, culminating in a list of questions about political systems which corresponds reasonably well to the questions he addresses in the Politics, as the following chart indicates: Outline of the Politics Questions in Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17-24 Book I: types of communities: the city, the household; household management Book II: critical survey of proposed and actual constitutio...

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He studied there for 20 years, until Plato's death in 347, before returning to Macedonia after 20 years. ... Although he studied under Plato, he disagreed with Plato on almost all issues. He did not think about the world in abstract terms like Plato. ... Plato saw reality in ideas that could only be known by thinking and reasoning about them. ... His books are filled with observations about animals that were sometimes not confirmed until many centuries later. ...

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