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- 91: The Allegory Of The Cave
- Plato was born 427 B.C. and died 347 B.C. He was a pupil under Socrates. During his studies, Plato wrote the Dialogues, which are a collection of Socrates' teachings. One of the parables included in the Dialogues is "The Allegory of the Cave". "The Allegory..." symbolizes man's struggle to reach understanding and enlightenment. First of all, Plato believed that one can only learn through dialectic reasoning and open-mindedness. Humans had to travel from the visible realm of image-making and objects of sense to the ...
- 92: Allegory Of The Cave Analysis
- In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” he suggests that there are two different forms of vision, a “mind’s eye” and a “bodily eye.” The “bodily eye” is a metaphor ... cave, the prisoners believe that the shadows they see on the wall are actual reality. Their “bodily eye” tells them that this world is real because their senses perceive so. Plato suggests that the senses do not perceive actual truth. The “mind’s eye” is not active inside the cave because the prisoners are imprisoned in this distorted world, which they ... is” (279). He then begins to understand that there is a reality higher than that which was previously believed. There is a concrete difference between the two eyes discussed by Plato. The “bodily eye” lives in the distorted world of sense perceptions; the imperfect world which people experience with their physical senses. In the cave, there were “men passing along ...
- 93: Aristotles Life
- ... influential thinkers in Western culture (World Book 663). Through his writings, Aristotle considered, summarized, criticized, and helped to further develop many of these traditions from which he had learned from Plato, his teacher. He was born in Stagira, and both of his parents died when he was a boy. His legal guardian named Proxenus raised him (World Book 663). At the age of 18 years of age, Aristotle entered Plato s school in Athens called the Academy. When Plato died in 347 BC, Aristotle left the Academy to live with some of Plato s disciples who were living with Hermeias. In 334 BC, he returned to Athens and ...
- 94: Socrates and Gorgias
- ... how can knowledge be gained. Hence, the use of rhetoric through persuasion. Because to be truly persuaded understanding must be reached, and understanding is in a sense conceptual. Socrates conveys Plato's view on rhetoric in the sense that rhetoric is most often used for selfish reasons. This is shown where Gorgias says that rhetoric is "the queen of all arts" while Socrates argues that rhetoric is simply "a knack for humoring the audience". Plato and Socrates felt that using rhetoric is immoral and "conducive to health of soul". Gorgias arguments seemed to suggest that he believed that words acquire their own meaning, because they ... in using rhetoric, the meaning of a democracy can be chipped away at by politicians to the point of nothingness, if rhetoric is used as a means of reasonable persuasion. Plato talk about rhetoric as being a powerful force, hence the relation to politics. One of the biggest fights Socrates had to fight was against the rhetors, Gorgias and Callicles. ...
- 95: Pythagoras
- ... That seems to imply the doctrine of the tripartite soul, which is also attributed to the early Pythagoreans on good authority, though it is common now to ascribe it to Plato. There are, however, clear references to it before his time, and it agrees much better with the general outlook of the Pythagoreans. The comparison of human life to a gathering ... speaks of a man who could remember what happened ten or twenty generations before. It was on this that the doctrine of Recollection, which plays so great a part in Plato, was based. The things we perceive with the senses, Plato argues, remind us of things we knew when the soul was out of the body and could perceive reality directly. There is more difficulty about the cosmology of Pythagoras. ...
- 96: Origins Of Communism
- ... friends should have all things in common.” But for obvious reasons, this system could never work on a larger scale. The idea gained momentum in late 5th century Greece when Plato recorded his predecessor’s dialogue in The Republic. Socrates outlines two types of communism in his dialogue. The first was a “utopian” communism which basically describes a peasant society not ... for “pigs” but not a civilized 4th century Athenian. For this he explained a sophisticated communism, one that would do away with the hardships caused by a wealthy ruling class. Plato then goes on to lay out a community in which wealth and power is separated, factoring social class out of the ruling equation. But Socrates argues the impracticality of Plato’s system being introduced to an Aristocratic Greece. Over a thousand years later and over a thousand of miles away, Sir Thomas Moore wrote Utopia. An assessment of modern ...
- 97: The Parable Of The Cave
- ... road and chose to take the road less traveled "and that has made all the difference." The use of life as a journey is nothing new to literature, but with Plato and Frost both show that this journey is not easy and there are many choices along the way that we must make that will determine the quality of the life ... to the depths of the cave once you were blinded by the light. The road to the right represents the continuance toward the light at the cave mouth discussed by Plato. This road had obstacles that will impede your path and slow you down, but do not stop you from continuing on to the end. The hills are the trials we ... the major steps in life that we are all faced with. Those who choose to turn away from the light would not lead a fulfilling life in the eyes of Plato or Socrates. Those that choose to continue toward the light take all the responsibility that comes with that choice. By continuing toward the light they continue to enlightenment. In ...
- 98: The Greeks' Contribution to Western Civilization
- ... tried to convince other Greeks to question themselves and their moral character. He believed that, "there is only one good, knowledge: and only one evil, ignorance." Another great philosopher was Plato. Plato was a student of Socrates'. He wrote down his conversations with Socrates, "as means of philosophical investigation." At about 385 BC. Plato wrote, The Republic, his most famous work. This book set forth his vision of a perfectly governed society. Amazingly it was not a democracy. He thought the person with ...
- 99: Aristotle On Art
- The subject of the Poetics is poetry, including epic poetry, tragedy and comedy. Unlike Plato, Aristotle regards poetry as a techne. The practice of poetry is governed by rules; these rules can be formulated and taught. Poetry is rationally comprehensible. The rules for a genre of poetry can be derived from examination of individual examples of that genre, eg, tragedy. The aim is to see what, eg, tragedies, have in common. Aristotle agrees with Plato that epic poetry, tragedy and comedy are essentially mimetic. But he decisively rejects Plato's view that mimesis in art consists in copying from life. According to Aristotle, mimetic poetry seeks to offer a convincing semblance of life. It seeks to be true ...
- 100: Platonic Paradox
- To research Plato's paradox in the Meno, we can first consult the definition of what platonism is. Websters defines platonism as "actual things are copies of transcendent ideas and that these ideas ... of virtue or simply be content to know that he possesses it? Can he who possesses true opinion ever be virtuous? These questions are all left to the reader by Plato, and would provide for excellent debate. There is no reason not to open up any point for rebuttal simply because every argument has a side. In closing, the Meno has ... confused coming out of the book than they were going in. Virtue, certainly is a trait that we to this day may never understand, and it is quite possible that Plato, himself was none too certain when he wrote this text. We can paradox ourselves to death and try to analyze that which we do not understand, but to concern ...
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