The statement "Family values teach us many wonderful things -- but justice is not one of them," seems to follow very closely with the opinion of Plato in his Republic. ... From this, Plato develops a plan in which he establishes a communal family for his entire Just City that he believes will bring both unity and justice to his city.  ... The second major contention is that Plato's means for dealing with the private family in his Just City will not bring about justice.  ... By Plato's definition, such favoring  would be considered  terribly unjust. ...

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Plato's city in the Republic is created as a perfectly just city ruled by philosopher kings that eventually will evolve into lower forms of constitutions, which will beget lesser forms of man. ... In the Republic, Plato creates a city, a kallipolis, that is ruled by aristocracy, "which is rightly said to be good and just." ... Throughout the Republic, Plato only deals with his kallipolis, which is unable to decay because it is governed by the just rulers. ... In the Republic, Plato deliberately creates an ideal city with just men as its people. ... But if this were the soul purpose o...

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Plato was a philosopher who believed in higher education and was curios about the way humans learned. Socrates was Plato's mentor who had a major influence on Plato's life. Therefore, it led Plato to writing The Republic. In here, Plato stresses his belief in the search for truth, and reality, instead of choosing ignorance. ... Plato has the released prison reach to a level of "higher being" when he is able to reason clearly and understand reality. ...

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Aristotle's metaphysics is, to some, Plato diluted by common sense (Russell 162). Plato's theory of ideas is partly metaphysical, and partly logical. An example of Plato's metaphysics is as follows: the logical part of the sentence "that is a cat" would be very generic, considering there is a difference between every cat. ... Plato and Aristotle say yes, and others say no, but they are very different in their opinions on why we cannot confine our good things to few. ... Plato fell along the same lines, especially when he wrote Republic. ...

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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)." ...

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Aristotle first trained in medicine, and then in 367 BC, he was sent to study philosophy with Plato in Athens. 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. ...

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