Plato urges his psychological belief that every individual soul contains three different parts that relate to their social class in the state. ... Plato firstly examines the virtues, characteristics of excellence, through social classes, needed to obtain a just state. ... Plato defines a justice as: "minding one's own business, and not being a busybody." ... Furthermore, Plato defines injustice as: "Meddling among the classes would most correctly be called extreme evil-doing." ... Furthermore, Plato relates justice and injustice to every individual throughout the entire state. ...

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Immortality of Plato's Love Though Plato died nearly 2500 years ago, the English language still keeps his definition of love in common usage. ... Plato would respond that intellectual association leads to the creation of timeless ideas, and is therefore a greater love than the physical love which creates children. Plato explores and defends his view of love in the Symposium, specifically in the dialogue between Socrates and Diotima (Symposium, 204e ­ 209e). ... The possibility of a woman having a fit mind for wisdom is not even considered by Plato in this argument. ... However, Plato&...

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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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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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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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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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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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For instance, Plato's theory of forms does not, to me, seem to jibe with modern physics and cosmology. ... Sartre, although he developed some of his ideas from Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, probably could not have expounded those same ideas of existentialism in their times; Nietzsche, who popularized the idea that "God is dead;" could not have been written in the time of Descartes; and Descartes could not have expressed his radically individualist ideas during the time of Plato. ... After notable minds of the Ancient World such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, by modernist standards, o...

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Rene Descartes, Plato and Socrates are among other Greek philosophers who tried to find answers to these questions. ... On the other hand, Rene considered that there was uninterrupted transaction between body and mind, Plato was positive in that education brought change to the basic nature of mind and Aristotle thought that of each of these was the manifestation of the other and was pessimistic about the role of education in changing the fundamental nature of humans (Hothersall, 2010). ...

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Dualism can majorly be traced to the postulations of Plato and Pythagoras. ... Plato argued that the mind pre-existed and survived the body, going through a continual process of reincarnation or transmigration. ... Almost 2000 years after Plato and Pythagoras reasoned that the human mind or soul could not be identified with the physical body, René Descartes reinforced this concept and gave it a name, dualism. ...

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A global study was done years ago by the New Economics Foundation to find out the long pondered question, which country is the, "happiest". Costa Rica, surprisingly, is ranked first as the world's happiest country. Costa Rica ranks 71 in the World's richest countries so how can they be so, "happ...

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The argument of empiricism versus rationalism, in other words one can draw on the thoughts and theories of Locke in opposition to the beliefs of Descartes. The argument between empiricism and rationalism can be broken down to the simple form of Locke's imperialism being that all knowledge derives from the senses, against Descartes" belief that information can be known in advance of experience through innate ideas. Locke is considered to be the founder of British empiricism, while Descartes is considered to be the father of modern philosophy. They both have two distinct epistemic syste...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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