Socrates and other philosophers argue about justice in the book, Plato's The Republic. ... The ideas and arguments of Plato center on the social settings of an ideal republic- those that lead each person to a more perfect life. ... Nevertheless, Plato's Republic has come to be known as a great philosophical masterpiece. ... He agrees with a philosophy that is still around today; a just man will reap his just rewards, and an unjust man, his just punishment. ... The Republic ends with Socrates narration of the tale of Er. ...

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It was probably expected, in fact, that Plato would enter politics as an intelligent young man of the ruling class. ... The middle dialogues are centered on the Republic; now, Plato's own philosophy begins to overcome the elenchus and Plato's views are put forward in favor of Socrates' sometimes indecisive method. ... Characters Plato - Athenian philosopher, author of the Republic. As a young man, Plato was a disciple of Socrates, and his early work bears the mark of Socrates' heavy influence. ... Plato then projects this three part division onto the human soul--we al...

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Plato's most famous writings include the "Republic", where we can learn about his beliefs including ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, epistemology, and metaphysics. ... Plato believes the nature if human beings is rational, and tended to identify our nature with reason, and our souls. ... If we learn how to our rational part functions we can therefore find the true goal of our life. Humans are rational and social creatures, but we become who we are in society. ... His educational thought is his portrayal of the ideal society in The Republic. ...

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It was probably expected, in fact, that Plato would enter politics as an intelligent young man of the ruling class. ... The middle dialogues are centered on the Republic; now, Plato's own philosophy begins to overcome the elenchus and Plato's views are put forward in favor of Socrates' sometimes indecisive method. ... Characters Plato - Athenian philosopher, author of the Republic. As a young man, Plato was a disciple of Socrates, and his early work bears the mark of Socrates' heavy influence. ... Plato then projects this three part division onto the human soul--we al...

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Throughout his lifetime he wrote many books, one entitled The Republic: Book X, which deals with his opinion of the perfect society. ... Plato believed in only rational approaches in life, while Homer, as we can see in Book Twenty-Two of The Odyssey, based most of his poetry on emotion. ... Plato writes: Well, I will tell you, although I have from my earliest youth had an awe and love of Homer which even now makes the words falter on my lips, for he seems to be the great captain and teacher of the whole noble tragic company; but a man is not to be reverenced more then the truth, and therefor...

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Throughout his lifetime he wrote many books, one entitled The Republic: Book X, which deals with his opinion of the perfect society. ... Plato believed in only rational approaches in life, while Homer, as we can see in Book Twenty-Two of The Odyssey, based most of his poetry on emotion. ... Plato writes: Well, I will tell you, although I have from my earliest youth had an awe and love of Homer which even now makes the words falter on my lips, for he seems to be the great captain and teacher of the whole noble tragic company; but a man is not to be reverenced more then the truth, and therefor...

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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. ... The last desire, the rational, is the reasoning part of man and is the part that loves truth and wisdom. ... There may be conflicts amongst the three parts for the desires of the soul, but Plato says that the rational part's job is to regulate the other two de...

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Which individual or group in the Republic is the freest, and why? ... He thinks that life is a continuous search, a search aimed at giving rational answers to all the problems we have to deal with in our lives. ... He is the unshackled ('enlightened') man, and clearly has more freedom to choose than the shackled man. ... Plato puts Socrates at the center of his work he tends to present him as the perfect model of knowledge and for Plato man is really free when he can attend to philosophical studies to research. ... The Republic of Plato, trans. ...

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Much of Plato's reasoning for philosopher-rulers centres around his belief that society should be rational and just. ... References to Socrates, especially regarding Republic, can be taken as Plato's beliefs expressed through the character of Socrates and not the man himself. ... This essay will first see Republic as a discussion of justice. ... Plato sees the human soul as being composed of three parts ; the rational part, the courageous part and the desiring part. ... One argument Socrates (that is Plato's Socrates) encounters in Republic is from Glaucon. ...

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The Tanach, Plato's Republic, and Aristotle's Politics, each deal with the question of how to structure the political state and manufacture its relationship with the individual. ... Plato's primary concern in creating his republic is the establishment of a just political state that will promote a life of moderation and discipline for its citizens. ... Thus, Plato divides the city into two socioeconomic groups: the common people, the farmers and craftsmen who control the wealth of the republic, and the guardians who by virtue of their nature and superior education are vested ...

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The Tanach, Plato's Republic, and Aristotle's Politics, each deal with the question of how to structure the political state and manufacture its relationship with the individual. ... Plato's primary concern in creating his republic is the establishment of a just political state that will promote a life of moderation and discipline for its citizens. ... Thus, Plato divides the city into two socioeconomic groups: the common people, the farmers and craftsmen who control the wealth of the republic, and the guardians who by virtue of their nature and superior education are vested wi...

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Greek Philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle had virtually the same beliefs about man's relation to the State, although Plato's political theory of the State was more rational than Socrates or Aristotle's. ... Although Socrates, Plato's and Aristotle's political views of the State are similar, Plato's view is more rational than Socrates and Aristotle's in the sense that he created an ideal State. ... Although Socrates, Plato and Aristotle had similar views on the State, Plato's view is more rational. ... In Plato's Republic we wanted poets, ...

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Plato is an interesting man, with stupendous caliber to contemplate and make philosophies of the human nature and the universe. ... The soul, according to Plato, is immortal. ... Similarly, Plato in "Phaedo" has Socrates explain the immortality of the soul. ... In Plato's dialogue "The Republic", the soul was explained in three parts: the reason (rational), the spirited (nonrational/will), and the appetites (irrational). The rational part of the soul has divine intelligence and because it can contemplate on the "forms", the body and the whole sensory world is experienced as imperfect and ...

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The definition of justice was left for a later discussion in the Republic. ... Plato's idea of a virtuous, excellently functioning individual was outlined with great detail, while in pursuit of justice, in his writings collectively called the Republic. ... The Republic was just that and he used it as an outlet to brake down the soul into three main parts: the appetite, spirited, and rational. ... The Republic started out as a means to find what justice is. ... While the appetite is of a natural urge, there is still a force that can cause a thirsty or hungry man not to partake in food or d...

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In Plato's Gorgias, Plato thinks it is important to explain what oratory is because he wants to question the ethical value or substance behind oratory's nature and function. ... Gorgias goes on to say that this because the speeches are "the cause both of freedom for human beings themselves and at the same time of rule over others in each man's city" (452d). ... Basically, Socrates is saying that oratory is not genuinely an art, because it does not have a rational method based on a true understanding of its subject matter. ... Once again, Socrates wisdom reveals that the abili...

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In short, Plato's government reinforces the need for order while giving the illusion of freedom. ... In fact, Plato proposes that the government raise children, thereby making the State a common "mother" to all (78). ... Plato's view of proper government contains divisions which can be seen a sort of classism. ... One of the important distinctions between Machiavelli's philosophy of government and Plato's is the role of the populace. As has been stated, Plato wishes to keep the masses in their places and establish an order to the State through classism. ...

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Plato vs. ... This brings the ability to balance the soul's will, between rationality and appetite. ... In the Republic, the discussion sheds light into the belief that without the, reason, will, and appetite of the citizens being in balance, the citizen can not be harmonious. ... Being a man who was intrigued with the natural world, which was unlike Plato, Aristotle felt that forms were not independent of this world. ... His reasoning is that man creates life and the rational soul, where a woman is inferior, weak, and is only good for feeding a prenatal child, not creating like man. ...

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However, that is not the perfect republic outlined in Plato's The Republic. Though Plato was a champion of rational thought, he made clear statements that popular forms of art and poetry must be interoperated in a way that is in the best interest of the state more specifically its guardians. ... For the leaders, Plato wanted communal living and even communal spouses. ... Much like Plato's Republic every citizen and occupant of the state has their own place, and if you want to be an artist, then you have to make that your place. ... In book 2 of The Republic Plato said that it was...

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Plato's ideal state is based on justice. ... In Plato's Republic is the question about the ideal state. ... Wisdom resides in the head of the human body and belongs to the rational part of the soul, with the interest nothing more than knowledge. [16] The virtue of prudence is itself the ruling class, which must be endowed with good judgment . ... Justice is for each man to deal only with the issues themselves, without intervening at all in others, mean that everyone does so in virtue have to do (that peasants and artisans work in the production, the guardians safeguard the freedom a...

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This is why man named these rules - laws. ... If we go back to Plato's Republic, to paraphrase Plato, he stated that each individual in a republic has a job to perform, a duty. ... We either succeed or fail in reciprocity by which one person recognizes another to form a community of rational beings". So we must realize that we as human beings determine the fate which gives us the freedom to conduct our lives in a civilized society and be governed by man made laws. ...

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"Plato's Republic" begins and ends with a discussion of justice. ... In fact, there are only two arguments that Plato presents over the course of The Republic to justify banning things in the city, but each argument is extremely important in its own right. ... And Plato uses these justifications to banish poets and various types of speech from his city. Specifically, he wants poets not admitted into the city because poetry "produces a bad regime in the soul of each private man by making phantoms that are very far removed from the truth " (289). ... The rational, spirited, and appetitive ...

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The main objective in Plato's philosophy is a creation of a perfect society. He constructs a foundation for a utopian society in his book "The Republic". ... He strongly felt that neither a moral individual nor a state that is rational could be established in a democratic environment. Plato felt that the common man wasn't intelligent or capable of dealing with concepts that influence the state such as economics, policy of foreign affairs and other relative matters. ... He decided to express in the "Republic" how men should conduct it self in a perfect society and what attitude they s...

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But as rational beings we have the capacity to think deeply and logically about them and come up with an idea it try to explain them. ... In book VII of The Republic, Plato puts into words the life of another great philosopher of the time, Socrates. ... Book VII of Plato's The Republic (which, for ease, will be referred to as The Cave) is an allegory about society and the restraints that are placed on members as well as education or the lack there of and the consequences. ... Plato tells us that the man would most surely want to go back into the cave, but only to persuade others to joi...

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In The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Apology, Phaedo, and The Republic, it is evident how Thucydides and Plato define each of these aforementioned ideas. ... Conversely, a poor man who commits treason or murder should suffer the same punishment as a rich man who commits the same crimes. ... A foreign man who is ready to live by Athenian law should never be considered inferior to a man born in Athens. ... In The Republic we see the first and highest function is known as the "gold " class and is made up of philosophers with a just soul. ... For example a philosopher in the gold class is...

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There is an immediate transition from the main ideas of this compared to that of Plato's Euthyphro. ... This idea is furthered in Plato's Republic when he offers an alternative item that will influence justice – censorship. ... Apollo is characterized by rationality and civilization. ... Plato shows the first distinction in the two philosopher's theories on justice by presenting justice as a conflict through two different people in Euthyphro. ... Plato continues his discovery of justice by introducing the idea of censorship. ...

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