Aristotle was Plato's student, and they were good friends for 20 or so years. ... For one to understand what Plato meant by this, it is important to analyze the way Plato viewed the world. ... Plato expands his use of Forms to build on his views on religion. ... Aristotle was one of Plato's students, meaning that his philosophical take on the world was influenced by Plato, however their take on religion is quite different. ... This might be why the Christian church made Plato an honorary Christian ("Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. par.26). ...

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Though Aristotle and Plato both express similar ideas here, Plato demonstrates his feelings through Socrates' persistance in the face of his own mortality, while Aristotle expresses his conclusions to an audience of students of intellectual pursuits. ... We, however, still read Plato's work about Socrates centuries later. Another way to look at this same concept of Aristotle's is by looking at the people in the Plato's text. ... By Plato's text we get the full experience of seeing the aparation of a person's ideas about themselves and the world vanis...

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The Theory of Forms By Plato Plato was one of the most creative and influential thinkers in Western philosophy, his influence throughout the history of philosophy has been monumental. ... In this essay I will explain, evaluate and analyze Plato's theory of the forms. ... This world according to Plato is more real than the one we live in. ... Plato says that knowledge must be certain and unquestionable, it must be infallible. ... Plato is saying that our knowledge is cut of from the world of experience. ...

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Plato was born in 427 BCE in Athens from an Aristocratic family. ... Plato "argued for the existence of an ideal world" (Donley). ... Plato also understood that our physical bodies are a part of the in the world of particular world. ... But our souls are part of the world of Forms, which for Plato is more or less identical with our reason. ... It is obvious that Plato heightened the idea of the world of Forms and the particular world. ...

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But when he is compared to Plato, are the two philosophers similar or different? ... Plato and Aristotle are two of the most widely acclaimed philosophers in their field. As a pupil of Socrates, Plato went on to become a well known philosopher and teacher of Aristotle. ... Plato claims that objects are only crude representations of their form. ... Aristotle refutes Plato's definition believing it to be simply unclear. ...

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This paper will examine Plato's theory on education as described in the Allegory of the Cave. ... Plato's Allegory of the cave, which is his theory on education that ultimately leads to enlightenment, starts off deep in a cave where there are prisoners chained to a wall by their neck and legs, forced to look forward. ... A prisoner getting released is the start of "turning the soul in the right direction" in Plato's Theory of Education. ... " This is what Plato's Theory of Education is, it's making the student think for himself, make him formulate his ow...

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One of those philosophers is Plato. Plato was born in 427 B.C. and came from a distinguished family in Athens Greece. He was taught by Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers according to Plato. ... According to Plato the rational soul controls emotions. ... Aristotle agreed with Plato that emotions are controlled by the rational soul. ...

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Greek Philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle had virtually the same beliefs about man's relation to the State, although Plato's political theory of the State was more rational than Socrates or Aristotle's. ... Although Socrates, Plato's and Aristotle's political views of the State are similar, Plato's view is more rational than Socrates and Aristotle's in the sense that he created an ideal State. ... Although Socrates, Plato and Aristotle had similar views on the State, Plato's view is more rational. "Plato's political theory is developed in...

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Plato once said, "music is a moral law. ... Plato's argument depicts no clear evidence of influential factors that music may have on individuals. ... According to Plato, early childhood matters the most for moral development. ... It is for that which Plato claims tales must strictly be censored, for kids absorb all information to which they are exposed. ... In Plato's republic, he expresses his belief that music enhances ability, anility, and political judgment. ...

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At the age of 17, Aristotle went to Athens to study at Plato's Academy. ... When Aristotle arrived in Athens, the Academy was being run by Eudoxus of Cnidos in Plato's absence. Speusippus, Plato's nephew, was also teaching at the Academy and so was Xenocrates of Chalcedon. All Aristotle's writing at this time strongly supported Plato's views and those of the Academy. ... Plato died in 347 BC and Speuippus assumed the leadership of the Academy. ...

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In his introduction to Plato's The Republic, Desmond Lee refers to Plato Socrates and Aristotle as the founders of the intellectual tradition of the West. ... In "Stolen Legacy,"(James, 2009) he argues that Desmond Lee's view of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle as the shapers of the intellectual tradition is flawed, he states that Socrates was executed for bringing foreign teachings also causing Plato and Aristotle to flee because "philosophy was something foreign and unknown to them. ... Martin Bernal (Bernal, 1989) in his Black Athena likens Plato's republic to the Egyptian Stat...

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As we all know (or should know) Plato believed that only a few people, such as himself, were "enlightened". ... In this writing which is a part of one of his most famous works "The Republic" Plato talks of some men who are tied down in a cave. ... Now it is pretty clear as to what it is that Plato hopes to get across to the audience. ... To Plato the perfect society was one in which the leaders were those of whom were awake. ... Although Plato was the teacher of Aristotle, this philosopher was totally against the ideas of his former educator. ...

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In The Apology, Plato writes: "The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short period, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone." David Thoreau would unarguably agree with Plato's quote. ... The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast Thoreau's Civil Disobedience to Plato's The Apology in order to show that it is not possible for justice to exist in the political world, due to the majoritarian rule of politics, and the types of individuals leading it. ... In The Apology, Plato writes: On this occasion I was t...

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Aristotle first trained in medicine, and then in 367 BC, he was sent to study philosophy with Plato in Athens. He studied there for 20 years, until Plato's death in 347, before returning to Macedonia after 20 years. ... Although he studied under Plato, he disagreed with Plato on almost all issues. He did not think about the world in abstract terms like Plato. ... Plato saw reality in ideas that could only be known by thinking and reasoning about them. ...

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Plato, Plotinus, and the Bhudda all held that time was not completely illusionary. ... Many religions believe that there is indeed an Everlasting Life after death on Earth, but others (Bhuddists, Orphics, Pythagoreans, Plato) maintain that the human essence - the spirit, the soul, the Egyptian sa - is reincarnated countless time into a new body after each physical death. ... It was Plato's belief that time is the "circular motion of the heavens," but Aristotle held firm in his rebuttal of this theory in his belief that time is the "number of movement in respect of the before and after, an...

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Socrates passed his knowledge onto Plato, who opened an Academy for philosophy and was responsible for teaching the great philosopher Aristotle. All three of these men are accountable for many of the philosophies that are still held today, such as Plato's Cave Theory, which shows how ignorance can control oneself for the worse. Plato's philosophy of the Divided Line was groundbreaking and led to such theories as Aristotle's philosophy of form and matter, which attempts to explain the reasoning of why things are what they are, for example, why a chair is called a chair and what...

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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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