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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This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. ... Accordingly, to break free, we must open our eyes and see the truth about the world around us according to Plato. ... In "Allegory of the Cave" Plato alludes to a direct representation of the human condition of typical behaviors in society. ... Oedipus" disposition fits in perfect to Plato's ideas that whoever does not accept their fate for what it is will be pitied such as Oedipus had not accepted his fate of marrying his...

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Plato's Universality can be explained as the seeking of that universal thing, the ideal form as compared to a reproduction. For example a reproduction of a square is no more than a copy of the square thus Plato would believe that there is an ideal form of the square somewhere. For Plato, Universals is the referent of the concrete and unchanging thing for all things. ... He stated that if Plato is the universal, then it is in fact Plato that is predicated of Socrates when we say Socrates is human. ... For instance, "Plato sits," would be a complete sentence in Abelard's vie...

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The relationship between Socrates and Martin Luther King The similarities between Martin Luther King and Socrates are so close that it's hard to imagine that either could have come up with their ideas alone. I believe as King quoted Socrates with, " it was necessary to create a tension in the mi...

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Mathematicians have the concept of rigorous proof, which leads to knowing something with complete certainty. Consider the extent to which complete certainty might be achievable in mathematics and at least one other area of knowledge. Claiming that mathematics' rigorous proof results only in complete...

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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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