Plato's most famous writings include the "Republic", where we can learn about his beliefs including ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, epistemology, and metaphysics. ... Plato believes the nature if human beings is rational, and tended to identify our nature with reason, and our souls. ... If we learn how to our rational part functions we can therefore find the true goal of our life. Humans are rational and social creatures, but we become who we are in society. ... His educational thought is his portrayal of the ideal society in The Republic. ...

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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. ... In Plato's Republic we wanted poets, ...

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In the first book of Plato's The Republic the topic being discussed is "what is justice for the individual?... Plato's aim throughout this discussion is to understand social and political solidity on a basis of moral resolutions that every man should live by. ... Socrates' philosophy is about asking questions and finding the answers through rational inquiry, discovering inevitable missteps along the way. ...

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Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. ... He doesn't believe we should listen to just any man's opinion for "one should greatly value some people's opinions, but not others"(54) . ... Plato agrees with Parmenides in many ways. ... In this sense, Plato is too a rationalist (122). ... Parmenides started rationalism and Plato continued with his theme. ...

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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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