When a man raises his head and stares at the moon, all he will see is the light coming straight from it. Little does he know that the bright eye catching moonshine that he, is staring at is only a reflection from the sun. Without the sun's rays, the moon would not be able to light up the night sky, nor fool the entire world of its beauty. That is, not to mention ... deeper into this world, one way being through Dillard's method which is to view the world through the lens of one's mind rather than with the physical feature of the bodily eyes. In comparison to Thoreau's idea, Plato does an outs...

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... exists a bridge that connects the two tradtions and represents the mid-point within the ethical continuim. That is, there exists fix immutable truths which exists inside the human condition a priori, within the mind. These truths of fixed immutable origins can be applied using deductive reasonning to situations. The catholic nature of absolute truth, as established by the early greek philosphers like Socrates view the absolute as being outside the human condition ... by a priori knowledge, it follows that the Universal, the ground of actuallity for the universe's existence is containine...

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... more sense than many of those considered very wise. Plato also wrote how Socrates was taught about truth and love from Diotima, a woman who was considered an "authority" on the subjects. This demonstrates that at least Plato, if not also Socrates, believes that women can also obtain truth. ... the proper and correct view. 1) How would Plato and Socrates react to Aristotle's polity? Plato and Socrates both believed in one singular truth and also in having an insatiable knowledge for it. This goes against Aristotle's middle constitution, because if there is one truth, there should be no ro...

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... agency. Hegel then offered some more details to justify Kant's view. He told that it's impossible to discuss aesthetics without talking about a theory of art. Aesthetic judgment is a bridge between our sensuous and the intellectual that could be the means of access to the world of ideas. In the nineteenth century, the aesthetics expressed as art. The traditional aesthetics was hard to trace by this time. People ... direct experience. Because Plato talks about Form of Beauty, that is just an illusion from long time ago, this theory doesn't work anymore for the twentieth century. The theo...

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