Plato's View of Education in the Republic: The dialogue on theological principles picks up where it left off in the previous book, Book II. ... Having dispensed with subject, Plato moves logically to its complement: style. ... Physical education, Plato asserts, should be governed by the same rigorous temperance as music. ... Plato closes with a famous allegory: the Phoenician tale. ... Plato' then asks whether the allegory could not serve as one of the State's most important myths. ...

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Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. ... The subject matter of the "Republic- is the nature of justice and it's relation to human existence. Book I of the "republic- contains a critical examination of the nature and virtue of justice. ... ""(339E) The final definition of justice offered in the Republic is that given by Socrates himself. ... It is only through the formulation of this hypothetical "ideal city- that he can arrive at a definition of justice, for to Plato, being the product of tumultuous, has l...

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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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Bellah abhors that people need to be useful to one another in order to be friends, which Aristotle, the apprentice of the famous scholar Plato, agrees as well. ... Even though Adams and Jefferson chose to commit themselves to be on different political sides for good, they remained friends after the republic's emerging party struggle. ...

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