Plato's thoughts on reality were "heavily influenced by Heraclitus, Parmendes, and Socrates " (Silverman). Plato's metaphysical view, for example, has us divided into two worlds: the becoming and the reality. ... However, according to Plato there is, somewhere, the idea of a perfect chair in which all woodworkers base their flawed chairs off of (Cox). Plato illustrated his concept of reality with his divided line analogy. ... Plato was a rationalist, which means his ideas did not come from observation but from the rational ideas that were occurring within his mind. ...

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Though Aristotle and Plato both express similar ideas here, Plato demonstrates his feelings through Socrates' persistance in the face of his own mortality, while Aristotle expresses his conclusions to an audience of students of intellectual pursuits. ... We, however, still read Plato's work about Socrates centuries later. Another way to look at this same concept of Aristotle's is by looking at the people in the Plato's text. ... By Plato's text we get the full experience of seeing the aparation of a person's ideas about themselves and the world vanis...

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Through their works that will be discussed herein, it will be evident that Plato's, Aristotle's and Socrates' works are still the ultimate basis of western society. ... However, the works of Aristotle as well as Plato are evidence that Socrates had great influence on the western world's evolution since Plato was his student and Aristotle was Plato's student thus the knowledge was passed. ... In addition, Plato's most important works according to Duiker & Jackson (2012) included the Laws and the Republic. According to Plato, democracy is a good form of government (...

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But when he is compared to Plato, are the two philosophers similar or different? ... Plato and Aristotle are two of the most widely acclaimed philosophers in their field. As a pupil of Socrates, Plato went on to become a well known philosopher and teacher of Aristotle. ... Plato claims that objects are only crude representations of their form. ... Aristotle refutes Plato's definition believing it to be simply unclear. ...

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DENIAL OF PLATO'S THEORY OF FORMS I deny Plato's Theory of Forms on three basic grounds: that the existence of Forms contradicts itself by denying the possibility of negations; that his illustrations of Forms are merely empty metaphors; and that the theory uses impermanent abstractions to create examples of perception. ... Forms, Plato believes, are permanent, self-contained absolutes, that answer to each item of exact knowledge attained through human thought. ... This contradicts Plato's own belief that only natural objects could serve as standards of knowledge. ...

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According to Plato, by nature, human is a political animal. ... The importance of existing though freedom, knowledge, and enlightenment is accentuated by Plato on The Republic. ... Plato has noted that human nature will always be the same although tested by time and change. ... Plato, as a student of Socrates, documented the views and arguments of Socrates in The Republic. ... As Plato stated, human nature will always be political due to the fact that nature has programmed us to be that way. ...

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Plato once said, "music is a moral law. ... Plato's argument depicts no clear evidence of influential factors that music may have on individuals. ... According to Plato, early childhood matters the most for moral development. ... It is for that which Plato claims tales must strictly be censored, for kids absorb all information to which they are exposed. ... In Plato's republic, he expresses his belief that music enhances ability, anility, and political judgment. ...

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Plato's Mimesis Conclusion Thus, just as "motion and change" define nature, mimesis, more than anything else, is the central characteristic feature of poetry. ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods and heroes. ... Imitation proper appears in the Republic in Book III, where Plato begins to consider the more complicated case of poetry concerning men. ... Plato therefore seems to cover the case of his own dialogues, where he speaks through the mouths of Socrates, Adeimantus and Glaucon. ... That imitation has harmful effe...

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In his introduction to Plato's The Republic, Desmond Lee refers to Plato Socrates and Aristotle as the founders of the intellectual tradition of the West. ... In "Stolen Legacy,"(James, 2009) he argues that Desmond Lee's view of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle as the shapers of the intellectual tradition is flawed, he states that Socrates was executed for bringing foreign teachings also causing Plato and Aristotle to flee because "philosophy was something foreign and unknown to them. ... Martin Bernal (Bernal, 1989) in his Black Athena likens Plato's republic to the Egyptian Stat...

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., philosophers like Plato and Aristotle studied the art of rhetoric, and realized its true linguistic power. Yet instead of using this power for their own gain, Plato and Aristotle wrote about and discussed the virtuous use of rhetoric. ... However, philosophers, especially the expert rhetorician Plato, recognized this as not the best and most noble use of rhetoric. ... But Plato maintains that "what is shameful is speaking and writing and doing it not well but shamefully and badly" in order to achieve personal gains or goals (Plato 40). ... Rhetoric has an extremely powerful potent...

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Aristotle's ideas were derived from Plato's view of the world and it's relation to absolute Forms. In contrast to Plato's beliefs, Aristotle felt that the basis of true reality can be determined by what exists in the physical world, not by an incomprehensive world of Ideas. ...

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In the first book of Plato's The Republic the topic being discussed is "what is justice for the individual?... Plato's aim throughout this discussion is to understand social and political solidity on a basis of moral resolutions that every man should live by. ...

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Introduction Modern psychology has the following industry practice: Psychotherapy, psychological correction, psychoanalysis, psychological training, personal, family Production counseling hotline, vocational guidance centers, personnel service companies, psycho-diagnostic public services, forensics,...

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Plato, Plotinus, and the Bhudda all held that time was not completely illusionary. ... Many religions believe that there is indeed an Everlasting Life after death on Earth, but others (Bhuddists, Orphics, Pythagoreans, Plato) maintain that the human essence - the spirit, the soul, the Egyptian sa - is reincarnated countless time into a new body after each physical death. ... It was Plato's belief that time is the "circular motion of the heavens," but Aristotle held firm in his rebuttal of this theory in his belief that time is the "number of movement in respect of the before and after, an...

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Socrates in "Plato Gorgias" says, "And if anyone asks of us what sort of persuasion, and about what, - we shall answer, persuasion which teaches the quantity of odd and even" (483). ... Socrates says, "Seeing, then, that not only rhetoric works by persuasion, but other arts do the same, as in the case of a painter" (Plato Gorgias, 483). ...

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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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In attempting to make sense of the earth's motion, particularly its position in the space (regardless the significance of the term at the time), people have spent uncalculated amount of efforts to make observations throughout the history. The major ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, pop...

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