-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... It was a positive remedy for the operation of justice in the ideal state. ... He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... However education in the Republic is exclusively meant for those who are to become the rulers of the ideal state. ... Through music the soul learns harmony & rhythm, & also a disposition of justice because "he who is harmoniously constituted can never b...

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Such questions have plagued philosophy since at least Plato, leading some to privilege mind over matter, and leading others to believe that all that exists is mind idealism, and still others to argue that all that exists are bodies or physical matter materialism. ... Mind, in Plato, connects to the lofty or higher parts of ourselves, and is associated with Knowledge, Truth, Morality, and ultimately the Soul; and through the mind we have access to the eternal, unchanging ideals of Justice, Beauty, and even triangles, from which we continually draw upon in our daily lives. As a result, knowledge...

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