Plato, the great Greek philosopher, further expounds on the procedure of how reason effects will in his books, The Republic and Phaedrus. In the Republic, he makes the case that the person's soul is divided into three parts, the rational, the spirited and the appetitive; all of these have a certain desire that they follow. ... The last desire, the rational, is the reasoning part of man and is the part that loves truth and wisdom. ... There may be conflicts amongst the three parts for the desires of the soul, but Plato says that the rational part's job is to regulate the other two de...

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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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They have questioned whether some such claims really are, as alleged, indubitable or necessarily true, and they have challenged the purported rational grounds of accepted assumptions.... Specifically, by pointing out that man is the measure of all things, he is expressing that man is no specific thing, therefore opening man to the possibility of being absolutely anything – this idea being as skeptic as it is. ... " (Socrates in Plato) This is one – if not the most recognized quote of Socrates. ... " (Wittgenstein 7) It sounds redundant and sort of contradictory, but all...

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