Plato claims that poetry is two stages removed from the truth. ... Hence, Plato says that artists understand little of what they are representing. ... He judges poetry by the standards of philosophy, ethics and education but neglects to judge it by the standards of poetry itself. ... " [1] It is absurd to judge art by the standards of philosophy. ... Would it be fair to judge philosophy according to its aesthetic beauty? ...

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In the test of time, most philosophies are forgotten and replaced by newer, more modern ones. ... The first element of philosophy is ethics. ... Aristotle's metaphysics is, to some, Plato diluted by common sense (Russell 162). Plato's theory of ideas is partly metaphysical, and partly logical. ... Plato fell along the same lines, especially when he wrote Republic. ...

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In "The Myth of the Cave" Plato describes a scene with people living in a cave. ... Plato also tries to prove how the life of political ambition would benefit if one came to know true knowledge as in the life of philosophy. ... In paragraph fifty-three, Socrates begins comparing the world of philosophy to the world of politics. ... As the essay goes on Plato further explains how the ministers of the state would benefit from gaining the true knowledge that he claims the world of philosophy has. ... Plato generalized the entire society as he wrote this essay. ...

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This also shows Plato's belief in the unity of the virtues. ... Like Plato, Aristotle strongly believed that happiness is more than just simple pleasure. ... "Without performing them nobody could even be on the way to becoming good... by taking refuge in argument they think they are engaged in philosophy and they will become good in this way. ... This disproves Plato's argument that wisdom is the key to all virtues. ... Aristotle's belief in action is a concept unexplored by Plato that changed philosophy's view on this subject. ...

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Plato, like Descartes, was not an empiricist. Plato, a rationalist, strongly advised that what we see is only a shadow of the true forms so are not to be trusted. ... The world in Plato's eyes was far from how non-philosophers experienced it. ... We are mere sheep, following each other further into the trap, being deceived by whoever is in front of us, and as Plato warned, the only way to get out is to study philosophy. ...

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This excerpt describes the philosophical views of two people: Descartes and Plato. ... Plato's views are also expressed in this excerpt; Plato believed that there were two worlds: the sensory world and the reasoning world. ... Plato believed that true knowledge could not be attained through the sensory world, because our senses would deceive us once again. ... This vaguely reflects what Descartes and Plato are saying where we live in the sensory world and we cannot see beyond it. ...

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Plato's Universality can be explained as the seeking of that universal thing, the ideal form as compared to a reproduction. ... For Plato, Universals is the referent of the concrete and unchanging thing for all things. ... He stated that if Plato is the universal, then it is in fact Plato that is predicated of Socrates when we say Socrates is human. ... On an article from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Professor Peter king from the University of Toronto wrote that for Abelard, "The word refers to the item directly by naming or nominating it," and the sentence, "is a c...

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Plato, considered to be essential to modern day mathematics and philosophy, was directly affected by him. Because of Protagoras and his fellow sophists, Plato began the search for transcendent forms of knowledge which could somehow anchor moral judgment. Plato even called him "the inventor of sophism." This shifted philosophy from the traditional natural kind to human philosophy. Human geography is generally the most common philosophy that is practiced in modern times. ...

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Our best sources of information about Socrates's philosophical views are the early dialogues of his student Plato. Although Socrates also appears as a character in the later dialogues of Plato, these writings more often express philosophical positions Plato himself developed long after Socrates's death. ... ", Philosophy The Power of Ideas (McGraw Hill 2002). ... Plato's Aploogy has in fact made Socrates the chief martyr of reason as the gospels have made Jesus the chief martyr of faith." ... The way Plato writes of a man willing to face death rather than abandoning his be...

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Crito: A Decision of Life Courtney Intro. to Philosophy May 29, 2000 Summer Pre-Session Socrates vs. ... -Socrates (Plato 571) In the arguments that Socrates makes, what other people think does not matter. ... -Socrates (Plato 577), is one of the most important and crucial in the Crito dialogue. ... Socrates was a man who chose his commitment to truth, morality and philosophy over life. ... "Plato: The Problem of Intellectual and Moral Consistency". ...

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There are many instances during Plato's Phaedo dialogue that suggest that Socrates acts much differently than any other person would while waiting to be executed. ... However, one of his arguments on philosophy and the definition of dying gives a suggestion of why he is not fearing his execution and why he is ready for what is about to happen. Socrates states that philosophy is actually the practice for dying. ... The argument that Socrates make about philosophy being practice for dying may be a good argument, but I do not agree that the body is what keeps a person from learning the wi...

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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. ... Kant and his philosophy was influenced by both Christianity and science and in seeing the most fundamental problems of philosophy in how to combine the two. ... One fundamental objective of his philosophy was to explain how scientific knowledge is possible. ...

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There are many definitions for rhetoric, but in accordance with the ancient Greek philosophy, rhetoric is the art of persuasion, and a rhetorician is one who makes the profession of using rhetoric. ... Socrates in "Plato Gorgias" says, "And if anyone asks of us what sort of persuasion, and about what, - we shall answer, persuasion which teaches the quantity of odd and even" (483). ... Socrates says, "Seeing, then, that not only rhetoric works by persuasion, but other arts do the same, as in the case of a painter" (Plato Gorgias, 483). ...

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