1. universals and humanness
Furthermore, Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" gives us understanding about human's progress and their responsibility to share and convey the enlightenment to those who are still in the darkness. ... According to "Allegory of the Cave", Plato described that "the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato). ... And this they must do, even with the prospect of death" (Plato). ...
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...
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...
As human beings, women should have human rights. However in history, women's rights have not been considered to be one part of human rights for such a long period. After the victory of American war of independence in 1776, Declaration of Independence was passed. At that time, in the concept of human...
In the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans, there was a growing unsettlement with traditional religion. People were becoming less accepting, taking less for granted, and wanting more; more knowledge and more answers. A new age of questioning was surfacing. Searching for alternative answers and...
The philosopher king is an essential part for turning the poorly managed cities into approximations of theoretical model for the just city. According to Socrates, the true philosophers are appropriate for ruling. Unlike inadequate rulers that love sights and sounds for their spectacles, Socrates d...
PHIL 100 Why are we here? You would be hard pressed to find a human being on this planet who has not asked him or herself this question at some point in life. In fact, most people have probably taken it one step further and actually given serious thought to this question. Some even say that t...
The secularization of the western world was a very trying and dramatic process. It involved many different ideas that were changed and reinterpreted to mean a variety of things. Most importantly the secularization of the western world gave rise to many of the current beliefs trends, and commonalit...
William James submits to us the notion that "personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness. - Stating that mystical states of consciousness must have the characteristics of ineffability, Noetic quality, transiency, and passivity , James ascribes four marks...
