Understanding the forms is what is most important for Plato. ... Others would say it is very unjust to testify against the one who is responsible for your being. Euthyphro's action could be considered both just and unjust. ... For the same reason that a pen sitting by itself can be considered both long and short, Euthyphro's actions can be just and unjust. ... I generally have to agree with Plato. ...
-(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. ... Through music the soul learns harmony & rhythm, & also a disposition of justice because "he who is harmoniously constituted can never be unjust". ... Plato also felt the necessity of moral education. ...
Book IX in The Republic by Plato is mainly an argument to prove justice is better than injustice. ... This example proves the just man happier than the unjust man Using this example, the unjust man is clearly worse off than the just man. ... This unjust man has also let his human being become starved and weak. ... In complete opposite to the unjust man, the just man is living a happy life. ... In Book IX, The Republic, Plato, the author, is simply trying to conclude his argument and goal of proving justice is worthwhile and rewarding. ...
There are three questions that must be answered when talking about the tyrant that is described in Plato's "Republic-. ... He asked Socrates to prove that a man who leads a just life, with none of the rewards that come with being just, would live a happier life than a man who lives an unjust life, with all the benefits of being just, and none of the disadvantages of being unjust. This breaks down to a question of, is a philosophers life (just) better than a tyrants life (unjust). ... In my own opinion I feel Socrates or Plato, whichever is really talking, is persuasive for reasons othe...
Keeping this in mind, we are not really sure where the ideals of Socrates stop and those of Plato begin. ... We can see how he views the State and the individual in Plato's Crito. ... He believed that the will of the State must not be ignored; it could however be proven wrong or unjust. But it is a delicate thing to prove a "state- unjust and not destroy it. And in the case of Socrates, he believed that the "state- was not unjust. ...
Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. ... Plato agrees with Parmenides in many ways. ... In this sense, Plato is too a rationalist (122). ... Parmenides started rationalism and Plato continued with his theme. ... Plato also agrees with Heraclitus, "about the world revealed to us through our senses (122)." ...
In Crito, Plato gives a vivid account of Crito's last attempt to persuade his old friend. ... "If it appears that we shall be acting unjustly, then we have no need at all to take into account whether we shall have to die if we stay here and keep quiet, or suffer in another way, rather than do wrong,"(49). ...
