Plato (427- 347 BCE) Plato, who was not just a philosopher but also a mathematician was always looking for the exact answers for everything. ... Plato believes in an ideal world of forms from which everything on this world is a copy of. Plato mainly focuses on metaphysics because he is one to question knowledge. ... A lot of Plato's works have had a tremendous impact on the changing of philosophical thinking and let's people know that philosophy can only work for the people when the people want to work for philosophy. ... He criticized speculative philosophy, equating metaphysics w...

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Hume's positioning on suicide is reflective of Epicurean and Platonic philosophies, because of its emphasis on living a good life, rather than a long, unpleasant one. The main fundamentals of Plato and Epicurus's philosophies rely on maximizing pleasure and reducing any evil in one's life. ... Our relationship with god is systematically complicated in philosophy, because of the difference in religions, and belief within our society. ... (Plato: 62). ...

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Benedict claims that in ancient Greece, as indicated by Plato's Republic, homosexuality was mostly approved and accepted. ... The philosophy of cultural moral relativism teaches us that morals and ethics of a culture are only applicable within that culture and other cultural morals, ethics and values are not better or worse, simply different. ...

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