In The Republic, Plato divides the city into three classes: gold, silver, as well as bronze and iron souls. ... In Plato's search for the perfect "republic", he decides that the basis of the city will be on four virtues. ... In The Republic Plato only allows certain classes to be virtuous in one virtue. ... The four Platonic virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice are the foundation of Plato's Republic. ... Plato tries to instill virtues onto certain classes, without thinking about what the "republic" would be like if he gave all people ALL the virtues. ...

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The Republic Summary In reading Plato's The Republic, learning to appreciate works from around 366 BC in sch a modern 21st Century world is a quite wonderful and informative privilege. Although we were not assigned to read the whole book, I have learned many ways in which Plato and Socrates think, among with the other characters. ... Socrates, a major character, is believed to be the most influential philosopher of Plato. Adeimantus and Glaucon, brothers of Plato, are loquacious contributors in Plato's book. Both brothers are favored equally and received much respect from P...

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The statement "Family values teach us many wonderful things -- but justice is not one of them," seems to follow very closely with the opinion of Plato in his Republic. ... From this, Plato develops a plan in which he establishes a communal family for his entire Just City that he believes will bring both unity and justice to his city.  ... The second major contention is that Plato's means for dealing with the private family in his Just City will not bring about justice.  ... By Plato's definition, such favoring  would be considered  terribly unjust. ...

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Justice is the underlining truth in the Republic of Plato. However the question is, is Plato's idea of a just society in fact the "truth-? ... Throughout the Republic Plato mentions the structure of every man's soul and how it ultimately has power over the individual. ... It is hard for me to believe the potency of the "Good- in Plato's ideal Republic when it does not even have the effectiveness to initiate it own structure. ... Plato tries to control the soul of man with his Republic, but fails to recognize that man's nature cannot be restrained to the poi...

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Maxim Ethics: Plato's Rules to Obtain the Good Life Plato describes ethical maxims through stories, parables, and examples in the Republic. The people that are used as examples throughout the Republic are segregated into three groups: gold, which are the rulers of the city, silver, which represent the guardians, and bronze which signify the commoners. ... In Book II through VII of the Republic, Socrates talks about the guardians of the Luxurious City. ... Plato tells through ten books of the Republic, what the maxims are in each class to living the good life. ...

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Maxim Ethics: Plato's Rules to Obtain the Good Life Plato describes ethical maxims through stories, parables, and examples in the Republic. The people that are used as examples throughout the Republic are segregated into three groups: gold, which are the rulers of the city, silver, which represent the guardians, and bronze which signify the commoners. ... In Book II through VII of the Republic, Socrates talks about the guardians of the Luxurious City. ... Plato tells through ten books of the Republic, what the maxims are in each class to living the good life. ...

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Master and pupil, Plato and Aristotle, through their respective works, "The Republic" and "Nicomachean Ethics," have each written extensively on the topic of happiness and fulfillment. ... This also shows Plato's belief in the unity of the virtues. This is seen throughout The Republic especially when speaking of the soul. ... This disproves Plato's argument that wisdom is the key to all virtues. ... In The Republic, Plato brings to surface knowledge as an important source for happiness, while in Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle expands on his teachers lessons, offers criticisms, and c...

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In Plato's Republic this very question is put forth as contentious. Plato disputes this question by using a method dialectic - the asking and answering of questions which lead the listener from one point to another, supposedly with irrefutable logic by obtaining agreement to each point before going onto the next, and so building an argument. ...

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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. ... Aeschylus represents a world filled with magic and divinities, something far from today's reality, creating the argument that while both Aeschylus and Plato demonstrate reasonable interpretations of justice, justice as explored through censorship and lies is much more convincing and relevant than justice explored through piety and ancient tradition ...

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Numerous experts in modern time regard Plato as the first genuine political philosopher and Aristotle as the first political scientist. They were both great thinkers, Plato and Aristotle each had ideas in how to proceed with improving the society in which they were part of during their existence. ... Aristotle to Plato had great theory but which ones would you agree with. ... On the other hand Plato who's famous dialogue Euthyphro, poses the question of whether the gods love what is holy because it is holy or whether it is holy because the gods love it or the divine command thoery. .....

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Plato's View of Education in the Republic: The dialogue on theological principles picks up where it left off in the previous book, Book II. ... Having dispensed with subject, Plato moves logically to its complement: style. ... Physical education, Plato asserts, should be governed by the same rigorous temperance as music. ... Plato closes with a famous allegory: the Phoenician tale. ... Plato' then asks whether the allegory could not serve as one of the State's most important myths. ...

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Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. ... The subject matter of the "Republic- is the nature of justice and it's relation to human existence. Book I of the "republic- contains a critical examination of the nature and virtue of justice. ... ""(339E) The final definition of justice offered in the Republic is that given by Socrates himself. ... It is only through the formulation of this hypothetical "ideal city- that he can arrive at a definition of justice, for to Plato, being the product of tumultuous, has l...

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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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Bellah abhors that people need to be useful to one another in order to be friends, which Aristotle, the apprentice of the famous scholar Plato, agrees as well. ... Even though Adams and Jefferson chose to commit themselves to be on different political sides for good, they remained friends after the republic's emerging party struggle. ...

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