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. ...

• Word Count: 592
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• Grade Level: High School

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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Allegory of the Cave comes from book VII of Plato's best know n work: The Republic. In "The Republic," Plato speaks of good and justice and the story of the cave relates directly to that. ... The Allegory relates directly to the divided line in the good and justice of the Republic. ...

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The book is actually an in-depth recording of a philosophy contest between Plato's teacher Socrates and several other great philosophers. ... Socrates" first major argument is with Thrasymachus in Book I. ... (Book VII, section 524) What this means is that the eyes alone cannot distinguish what is right from what is wrong since they contribute to many sins, such as lust, coveting, and several others. ... (Book VII, section 524). ... What the State does not have is a tyrant, which Socrates goes into great detail about in Book IX. ...

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The Republic is just one of all his works. ... He mentioned that wisdom, courage, moderation and justice combine together to form the Republic. According to the book Great Thinkers of the Western World, in the Republic, Plato sets forth the simile of the line by which he divides all knowledge into the realm of opinion and the realm of true knowledge. ... In book VII, Myth of the Cave, is the perfect example of the four levels of knowledge. ... Plato believed that wisdom, courage, moderation and justice together form The Republic. ...

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is Book VII in his much larger work, The Republic. The Allegory of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us what he believes about reality and how we have a false interpretation of reality. It is an extended metaphor full of sym...

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Knowledge Knowledge can be obtained in many different ways. It can be as simple as a student repeating a pattern over and over in his or her mind and storing it in memory for an exam in a Respiratory Therapy class. Although this is not true knowledge, if he or she uses this pattern later in li...

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is Book VII in his much larger work, The Republic. The Allegory of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us what he believes about reality and how we have a false interpretation of reality. It is an extended metaphor full of symbolis...

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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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In book VII of The Republic, Plato puts into words the life of another great philosopher of the time, Socrates. ... Book VII of Plato's The Republic (which, for ease, will be referred to as The Cave) is an allegory about society and the restraints that are placed on members as well as education or the lack there of and the consequences. ...

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Plato discusses his theory of mimesis in his "Allegory of the Cave" in Book VII of The Republic. ... These socially educated people will then create the ideal republic he dreams of. Although Plato had just intentions, I agree with the need for an ideal republic, but I know it is impossible. ... Plato's ideal republic could not exist now because the socially educated people are supposed to create the republic. Not everyone is today's time period is socially educated, therefore the republic would fail. ...

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On a less grand scale, the book is certainly a representative of 1920s society, a time when the values and morals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century were declining in favor of the materialism and narcissistic attitudes following the First World War. ... (Bruccoli vii) Gatsby's wealth is all wrong, it is precisely why he lives on the West Egg rather than the East Egg. ... He did not know it was already behind him somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." ...

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-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... However education in the Republic is exclusively meant for those who are to become the rulers of the ideal state. ...

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Furthermore, the traits developed by Nazism during Hitler's rise to power became the major characteristic of it exercise of power: charismatic leadership, unrelenting propaganda, "institutional Darwinism- advancement of opportunists, and the infiltration of the socioeconomic infrastructure (Allen vii). ... Once in power, he eliminated all opposition and launched an ambitious program of world domination and elimination of the Jews, paralleling ideas he advanced in his book, Mein Kampf. ... Throughout the 'Golden Years' of the Weimar Republic, Hitler had little to offer the majo...

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Not only does this endanger the public's exercising their rights to read a book or write an e-mail, but it also prevents library staff or booksellers to inform their patrons if the FBI has asked for their reading list (Talanian). The freedom to read any book of interest or search for information on the internet, is a right that is vital to the exchange of ideas that makes this country a strong, dynamic republic. ... However, Amendment VII of the United States Constitution states that "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment be...

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In the state of nature, says Rousseau, "man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" (Book I: I 169). ... "Might does not create right," explains Rousseau (Book I: III 173). ... In Book II, Rousseau will first explain the inalienable status of the sovereign, the body of people that are "the true foundation on which all Societies rest" and then the laws that help to maintain the loyalty of its subjects (Book I: V 179). ... The focus of Rousseau's theory of Sovereignty that offers the most difficulty is his view that, for every State, a Legislator is necessary (Book II: VII). ... Hum...

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In the state of nature, says Rousseau, "man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" (Book I: I 169). ... "Might does not create right," explains Rousseau (Book I: III 173). ... In Book II, Rousseau will first explain the inalienable status of the sovereign, the body of people that are "the true foundation on which all Societies rest" and then the laws that help to maintain the loyalty of its subjects (Book I: V 179). ... The focus of Rousseau's theory of Sovereignty that offers the most difficulty is his view that, for every State, a Legislator is necessary (Book II: VII). ... Hum...

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Besides, in the Old World Eliot faced the complicated type of civilization on the brink of World War I: that was "the Europe of Edward VII in England, Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany, the Third Republic in France, and Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow enchanting people's minds- - something quite different from what Eliot had seen in America. ... His most famous and popular work of that kind is Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), which was later assumed as a source of the modern musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber (the musical was first staged in London in 1981 and was o...

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The book discusses bold means of gaining and controlling land and measures these means on their ability to increase the glory of the prince while also benefiting the general public. ... (Jensen, 1960, vii) This early introduction fostered an interest, desire and talent for government work. In 1948 at the age of 29, despite a lack of experience, Machiavelli was appointed to serve as the second chancellor of the Florentine republic, engaging in diplomatic missions through France, Germany as well as Italy. ... After the demise of the republic, he was arrested, tortured, and e...

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"As the Roman Republic grew more effeminate with wealth and luxury, earrings were more popular among men than women; no less a he-man than Julius Caesar brought back to repute and fashion the use of rings in the ears of men." ...

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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 rabbit hole goes? This is a question you need to answer, when you decide to dive into the philosophy of the Matrix, one of the biggest blockbuster film trilogies, joining notable other such film trilogies as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Terminator, and Star Trek. The Matrix although it has the ability...

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Chinese/Japanese Hostilities Timeline 1894-5 First Sino-Japanese war - fledging Japanese navy defeats Chinese fleet off Yalu River. Fortress of Port Arthur (Lushun) stormed. After the war, Japan seizes Taiwan and S. Manchuria. 1910 Annexation of Korea. 1926 Hirohito becomes Emperor. 1931 Sept.18 - "The Mukden Incident" - Bomb explodes under Japanese-owned express train in Manchuria (planted by Japanese secret agents); Japanese troops proceed to occupy all Manchuria. 1932 Chinese boycott of Japanese goods le...

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Introduction The Central Committee of the Belarussian Communist party approved the proposals on the construction of the monument in the Brest fortress in the decree «The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Sovietskaya Belarus» at the expense of the funds collected by the people for these purposes. An account was opened in the bank. Taking into account great services of the defenders of the Brest fortress before the Motherland and to the commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the great Patriotic war, the Presidium of the Supreme...

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