Specifically, he wants poets not admitted into the city because poetry "produces a bad regime in the soul of each private man by making phantoms that are very far removed from the truth " (289). ... Adam Smith's famous concept of the "invisible hand " that is human self-interest is frequently cited in economic discussions, but it can easily be extrapolated to describe and explain other human actions and desires. Indeed, almost in perfect contrast to Plato's method for bringing a justice of harmony into his city by instituting policies aimed at shaping the souls of citizens, Milton Fr...

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Rhetoricians, and most notably the Sophists, were believers in nomos. Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. Nomos is loosely translated as LAW; while PHYSIS is loosely translated as nature. Those who believed in NOMOS argued that reality, and therefore human understanding of tha...

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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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