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- 171: Emerson's “Self-Reliance”: Optimistic But Unrealistic For the 21st Century
- ... your heart is the same for everyone. He goes on to say that: “Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions and spoke not what men, but what they thought.” It is good for us to know that these great ...
- 172: Aristotle’s Rules For Tragedy
- Aristotle’s Rules For Tragedy Laid Down In Poetics As They Apply To Blood Relations By Sharon Pollock Aristotle could be considered the first popular literary critic. Unlike Plato, who all but condemned written verse, Aristotle breaks it down and analyses it so as to separate the good from the bad. He studies in great detail what components make ...
- 173: Crito
- ... when you can save it, and to hasten your fate as your enemies would hasten it, and indeed have hastened it in their wish to destroy you."(Crito p.48d) Plato introduces several pivotal ideas through the dialogue between Crito and Socrates. The first being that a person must decide whether the society in which he lives has a just reasoning ...
- 174: Examination Of Music History
- ... passionate and intimate emotions, where as the Dorian mode produced forceful, rigid feelings. In later Greek history the doctrine of ethos was widely argued by the most philosophical of men. Plato and Aristotle both had broadly different views on the power and importance of music. The persocratic philosopher Pythagoras was even interested enough in music to develop the numerical octave system ...
- 175: The Republic: Morality and Immorality
- ... it’s compared to immorality, we learn that morality is a conduct of happiness, because morality is a personal choice, to do the things that are just. BIBLIOGRAPHY Waterfield, Robin, PLATO’S REPUBLIC, Oxford University Press, 1993.
- 176: Satire Or Tragedy - Macbeth
- ... incidents. Tragedy is not an imitation of men, but of action and life. It is by men's actions that they acquire happiness or sadness. Aristotle stated, in response to Plato, that tragedy produces a healthful effect on the human character through a katharsis, a "proper purgation" of "pity and terror." A successful tragedy, then, exploits and appeals at the start ...
- 177: The Allegory of the Cave: Turn Around
- ... whittling away using what I know God is not. I fear, of course that when I finish whittling, there will be nothing left, but the Truth is of highest priority. Plato divides Everything into two worlds, and each of these two worlds into two subsections. The lowest section is the World of Images. If I tell you that money will bring ...
- 178: Socrates Sides With Creon Or A
- Socrates Sides With? Through my reading of Plato s Apology of Socrates and Crito, I have been able to see how Socrates makes important decisions and what he primarily bases his decisions on. As a individual person we ...
- 179: How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
- ... of the walls of the Stanza della Segnatura. The School of Athens exhibits ancient Greek philosophers and many scientists of the ancient times. In the center of the fresco stands Plato and Aristotle, two of the greatest minds of ancient times. The painting depicts the philosophers and scientists practicing their science while all in the same vicinity. He raised his art ...
- 180: Hume
- ... power at work imposing order, design, structure and purpose in creation. Modern religious piety salivates at the prospect of converting scientists and will take them any way it can. From Plato to Planck the problematic lion of religion must be rendered safe and tame. Religion must be reasonable, after all, we are reasonable "men." Einstein writes that the scientist's "religious ...
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