However, that is not the perfect republic outlined in Plato's The Republic. Though Plato was a champion of rational thought, he made clear statements that popular forms of art and poetry must be interoperated in a way that is in the best interest of the state more specifically its guardians. ... For the leaders, Plato wanted communal living and even communal spouses. ... Much like Plato's Republic every citizen and occupant of the state has their own place, and if you want to be an artist, then you have to make that your place. ... In book 2 of The Republic Plato said that it was...

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"Plato's Republic" begins and ends with a discussion of justice. ... In fact, there are only two arguments that Plato presents over the course of The Republic to justify banning things in the city, but each argument is extremely important in its own right. ... And Plato uses these justifications to banish poets and various types of speech from his city. Specifically, he wants poets not admitted into the city because poetry "produces a bad regime in the soul of each private man by making phantoms that are very far removed from the truth " (289). ... The rational, spirited, and appetitive ...

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There is an immediate transition from the main ideas of this compared to that of Plato's Euthyphro. ... This idea is furthered in Plato's Republic when he offers an alternative item that will influence justice – censorship. ... Apollo is characterized by rationality and civilization. ... Plato shows the first distinction in the two philosopher's theories on justice by presenting justice as a conflict through two different people in Euthyphro. ... Plato continues his discovery of justice by introducing the idea of censorship. ...

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For Plato, the good life was that in which through rational analysis and thought an individual dedicated his life to observing and understanding the highest principle, which he called "the Good". ... It also means developing to the fullest your mental, rational capacity, creating a set of values to which you are consistent throughout life and consciously understand their reason for being (truly knowing yourself and understanding your beliefs) and giving rational thought to higher principles of life. ... There are several philosophers whom I had similar views to: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Karl Marx...

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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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Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. ... Virtu is thus manliness, those qualities found in a "real man"" . ... On the other hand, Plato argues a ruler can never be unjust. ... The citizen, in order to create a strong republic, must yield to the inevitable realization that each man by himself is weak. ...

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Plato designed a utopian Republic, while Karl Marx radically changed the face of the earth by offering up a secular state that is supposed to be sufficient for all. ... We know Socrates through his student Plato's writings. Plato sought a republic where people had knowledge of the Idea of the Good. ... Cicero was the greatest thinker of the Roman republic. ... He said that the pre-industrial state of nature was a reasonable and moral place where men were "born free as we are born rational," with reason and morality. ...

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The Matrix of Man, Technology, and Reality And how the program for The Matrix Was written hundreds of years ago Introduction: What is the Matrix? Which pill will you take; will it be the red one or the blue? Will you choose the blissfulness of ignorance, or will you see how far down the...

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