One comparison of ideas can be drawn from Aristotle and Plato's belief about things not of this dimension, demonstrated through Socrates and Aristotle's text. The philosophies of the two minds constantly concern themselves with the ethereal, the things not of the Earth. ... Once they are brought to the inquizzitive musings of Socrates, the myth of their knowledge in what they do as well as the confidence in themselves as the people they are seems to crumble, and the way we see each character is ultimately changed. ... As an unwilling sort of guide (not a teacher as he does not...

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"Outlining his initial version of the cosmological argument, Plato points out in Laws that things in the universe move or change."7 However motion or change in one thing, is caused by motion or change in another thing that affects it. ... Plato believed this mover to be the source of change in motion in all that has ever been. ... Beauty for example is transferable because things may resemble beauty in different ways. ... 'The Forms could never be encountered in this world, since they are permanent and unchangeable concepts- justice, truth, beauty and goodness- of which Plato be...

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The possibility of such cultural regulations depends on the leaders, not to mention the great amount of coercion that is inevitable in carrying this plan out. ... While there are many people who would turn away from murder, they do not deny themselves the satisfaction it would bring, and if they could get away without being punished for it, they would most likely take that offer. ... And following this is the turning of the nature character into gods. ... To people life would be intolerable if they did not attach to these ideas the values they are claimed to have. ... Freud negates the ...

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