I will use the principles of Kant, Bentham/Mill, and Plato to help show why some particular sexist and racist actions are wrong or unjust. ... According to the philosopher Plato, he defines justice as treating equals equally and unequals unequally. ... I think this fits well with Plato's definition of justice because an unequal was treated unequally even though he was black he couldn't help the fact that it made him an unequal individual. ... This shows that an unequal was treated unequally based on their sex and that's exactly how Plato described what justice is. ...

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Aristotle's metaphysics is, to some, Plato diluted by common sense (Russell 162). Plato's theory of ideas is partly metaphysical, and partly logical. An example of Plato's metaphysics is as follows: the logical part of the sentence "that is a cat" would be very generic, considering there is a difference between every cat. ... Plato and Aristotle say yes, and others say no, but they are very different in their opinions on why we cannot confine our good things to few. ... Plato fell along the same lines, especially when he wrote Republic. ...

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"( Plato's The Protagoras pp 55). ... (Plato's The Protagoras pp 79) Humans cannot be noble, just, and couragous but must strive to become these, that is, to live grounded within the rules of absolute truth. "... ... "( Plato's The Protagoras pp 89). ... Plato premised that knowledge and wisdom are the highest states of being(352 C. ... Plato had also reasoned that knowledge was virtue and being like virtue knowledge is an absolute principle. ...

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Plato and Aristotle made clear that there was a distinction between humans and animals. Plato believed that humans and animals both had mortal souls located in the chest and stomach. ... This immortal soul, which Plato believed animals did not have, had a connection with the divine. ...

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Though the gift of life is a virtue so invaluable that it would seem immensely farcical to throw it away, the reality of suicide is upsettingly prevalent in Canada, and all over the world. Though it seems stereotypically immoral, philosopher David Hume defended the act, labeling suicide as sometimes...

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Kant and the Theory of Human Knowledge Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is generally recognized as the greatest philosopher since Plato and Aristotle. During this period philosophers sought to apply the methods of science to the study of human beings. He was influenced greatly by the ethical and...

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In order to accurately understand how Kant bridged the gap between the rationalist method of understanding and knowledge and the empiricists, you must first separate and define the two. The rationalist point of view stemmed from Plato, and was acclaimed by many other great philosophers such as De...

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It derives the existential character of the ecological crisis and its life threatening character not only from the so-called 'Reports of the Club of Rome' and from other theoretical and empirical investigations, but in particular from Plato's theorem of the 'plenitude' of a cosmic order. ...

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WH Walsh wrote the book Hegelian Ethics in 1969 in an attempt to make clear the philosophy and writings of a philosopher that was neglected by other philosophers for more than a generation. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, was unpopular mostly for his difficult writing style, but also because of the w...

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