In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. ... With the birth of "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man... We see straight through to what we seek; whence each thing is created and in what manner made, without god's help." ... Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for thing...

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The fundamental capacity to understand the world outside the world of the individual and his or her internal world includes the ability to interpret, characterize, and associate what things seem to be singular, or at least, singular groups of things. ... For Plato, the physical things of the world must have bodily form. ... And, for Pieper, God's role in the life of every individual and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and love are the ways by which human beings understood truth. ... Henry David Thoreau had gone to Walden Pond, a small body of water outside...

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The Apology is the only one of these writings that was not written in the form of a dialogue but is instead a speech by Socrates, with the exception of one small part where he is questioning one of his accusers, Meletus. ... His life becomes a mission to try to get the people to question things and not take everything at face value. The youth of Athens were the ones who listened to him the most and began to question things and this infuriated the people in charge (SparkNotes Editors, n.d.). ... An example of this type of irony in the Apology would be when Socrates says that he thinks there is ...

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My view of what Plato is saying is that he is emphasizing that beauty can be seen in all things and that beauty is universal and the same. ... John Ruskin presents a more emotional view I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical beauty which is to be found in the lines and gradations of unsullied snow: if, passing to the edge of a sheet of it, upon the Lower Alps, early in May, we find, as we are nearly sure to find, two or three little round openings pierced in it, and through these emergent, a slender, pensive, fragile flower, whose small, dark purple, fringed bell hang...

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