... Nearly every western philosophy flows directly through Plato'sRepublic.? It dealt with issues such as politics, psychology, anthropology, and equal rights for women. These issues were years before his time. All these being equal, perhaps Plato's greatest thoughts dealt with his ideas of a Model society. Let me elaborate. In part nine of Plato'sThe Republic,? Plato discusses the ideal society and how it would fair in ... today's modern world. His notion of the society degenerates into four imperfect forms of government, and he goes on to describe ... close to truth and righteousness as ...

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... in his best interest if he does so? Socrates and other philosophers argue about justice in the book, Plato's The Republic. This book is an examination of the "good life"; the harmony reached by applying pure reason and justice. The ideas and arguments of Plato center on the social settings of an ideal republic- those that lead each person to a more perfect life. Socrates reputation for good conversation ... is already well established. In the beginning of this book he is approached by some amateur philosopher ... , his just punishment. He also believes the greatest part of this will occ...

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... a verb, kratein, which means ''to rule,'' Its basic meaning is ''government by the people" or "rule by the ruled.'' Socrates quest for justice was written in the form of a dialogue by his student Plato, in Plato's Republic. Plato believed the Athenian democracy was on the verge of ruin and was responsible for Socrate's death. This encouraged him to write the Republic. In Plato's ideal society justice ruled. What is Justice? This is ... the question that Socrates wanted to find an answer to. According to the American Heritage Dictionary justice is the quality of being just and fair; the ...

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... holy and unholy. Euthyphro hence believes by adding the "all gods- to the third definition, the problem will no longer exist. Socrates further wishes to analyize the statement, "The point which I want to first understand is whether the holy is loved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is loved by the gods- (Plato 14). Socrates begins refuting the statement by certain examples. "Someone does not ... somone leads it. Something is a carried object because someone carries it, someone does not carry the object because it is a carried object- (Plato 15). There is a certain distic...

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... like, look inside and see what sort of character you posses. Reflect on how you act generally and extrapolate. Plato: - The Republic (Book I) argues against various construals of the notion of justice. The simple notion, that justice is rendering what is due to one, is rejected on the grounds that it is clearly wrong to return a weapon to a person when they are in a mad rage. Furthermore ... ends up being messed up. d) Thomas criticized the Republic on the grounds that it is not clear just how the problem of understanding evil could come to be solved in the Republic: after all, if the c...

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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. All the people of the city have their maxims or conducts of living to have the good life. They all have ... , spirit by fighting, following its leader, and carrying out the leader's decisions through its courage (442-B)? Following the leader, fig...

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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. All the people of the city have their maxims or conducts of living to have the good life. They all have ... , spirit by fighting, following its leader, and carrying out the leader's decisions through its courage (442-B)? Following the leader, fig...

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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. All the people of the city have their maxims or conducts of living to have the good life. They all have ... , spirit by fighting, following its leader, and carrying out the leader's decisions through its courage (442-B)? Following the leader, fig...

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... decisions. As a result, this tyrannical man is living much like a wild beast himself. However, the just man he has tamed these desires and not let them become the better of him. Therefore, this just man has been able to lead a more contented life. In Book IX, The Republic, Plato, the author, is simply trying to conclude his argument and goal of proving justice is worthwhile ... and rewarding. He utilizes the example of the lawless tyrannical man as the unhappiest of men. This is the first proof that it pays ... to be just. In the second part of Book IX, The Republic, Socrates provides ...

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... they differ, this is not necessarily Socrates final belief regarding the soul, simply a train of thought he found interesting or worth exploring. Aside from many complex discussions of Plato's dialogues, another pertinent topic that related to both Socrates and Plato was their stand on ethics. Plato's The Republic is considered by the majority of philosophers to be the most important single piece of philosophical literature ever written. In ... it Plato argues that men will benefit from being virtuous, even though they would seek ... ...

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... functioning properly, such as the soul or civilization, they were considered virtuous. With that in mind, the ideal state, according to Plato would be one that is virtuous, in regards to its citizens and the state itself. In the Republic, the discussion sheds light into the belief that without the, reason, will, and appetite of the citizens being in balance, the citizen can not be ... harmonious. These ideas were correlated with the three largest parts of the human body, the head, the chest, and the ... abdomen. Also being correlated with the three parts of the ... ...

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... 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. Plato said that there was some truth in every person. In the Republic, his idea of a just society would hold ... that only the philosopher kings possess the ultimate knowledge and truth, but that forms of truth could be ... reached by anyone. I think Aristotle believed that the highest form of truth, knowledge ...

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... existence. It is necessary therefore to analyze their different theoretical approaches regarding their philosophical perspectives, such as ethics and psychology. Aristotle to Plato had great theory but which ones would you agree with. Aristotle has his philosophy for the purpose of human nature. He even explains how happiness is different for every person, and each different type of person has a different ... , and that these three vices could be pursued but not as an all encompassing goal. Aristotle felt that through the four qualities of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice, could ...

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... questions that must be answered when talking about the tyrant that is described in Plato's "Republic-. First you must explain the character present in the tyrant. Second you must describe the kind of life that a tyrant can be expected to live. The third and final question is why is the philosopher's life a better life than that of the tyrant. What is the character of a tyrant? This is a question that Socrates ... away from the philosophical level the part is the more likely it is to compel the other parts. And since Tyranny is the farthest from philosophy, the tyrannical pleasures are t...

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... a prince actually does live. He writes, "I have thought proper to represent things as they are in a real truth, rather than as they are imagined."" (pg. 49) Plato may have had a very utopian idea represented in The Republic, but that situation has never been a reality, and, most likely, will never come to be. Instead, Machiavelli wants to focus on what princes and rulers have ... and actions detrimental to his empire will be vices. Machiavelli did not so much redefine the term "virtue- but placed it in the perspective of a realist. In a certain sense, perhaps Thrasymachus was right when...

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Exposition of Republic 352d-354a Socrates begins the argument on the basis of a statement from a past concession that "just people are clever and more capable of doing things, while unjust ones are not even able to act together." (351b). The purpose of this argument is to determine whether or not just people live better and happier than unjust ones. Socrates starts off by refuting Thrasymachus with such question, that just people do live better lives, and that it is quite obvious. The whole argument is important to Socrates because he feels that it is concerned with the way people ought to liv...

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Webster's Dictionary defines justice as the quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. Thrasymachus's views justice as an advantage of the stronger. The example he gives I that the government makes up laws to help itself and declares just for their people. This proves Thrasymuchus's point in that justice benefits other people while injustice benefits you. In modern day we c...

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The Three Waves In the Republic, Plato, through his character of Socrates, is searching for the definition of justice. During his search he creates a theoretical city of the kallipolis. This city is to be the ideal, good city. After he establishes this city in his mind he realizes that this city goes against some of the major common thought of his time, and for the city to work it must ... love it with all their passion. If there is marriage and romantic love, then the love for the city will be divided among the family and the state. Instead of this romantic love, people of the city should ha...

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... is also "incapable of finding it" (Republic 336e). This is a very important idea as Plato continues with the Republic. Plato writes of the analogy of the line and the cave. In these analogies, Plato takes the mind through four stages: imagination, belief, thought, and understanding, imagination being the least significant and understand being the most significant. By imagination, Plato means shadows and reflections. By beliefs, Plato means the originals that caused these reflections. By thought ... , he means using the beliefs as "hypotheses" and "first ... ...

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... of ancient Greece, an era of thought and enlightenment emerged some of the greatest thinkers of all time, such as Socrates and Plato. Over the years, many questions have been raised by these men or posed by them. In Plato's "The Republic", Book I the fundamental question hey focus on is, "What is Justice?" Plato says that the just man does what is good and right to his friends, and ... wrong and evil to his enemies, though sometimes it is good to do wrong. On the other side of ... the argument is John Stuart Mill and his view on ... ...

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... a cat" would be very generic, considering there is a difference between every cat. The metaphysics part of Plato's theory of ideas says that "cat" refers to an ideal cat, "the cat" created by god, and unique of all other cats (Russell 121). 3 Physics is the study of the workings of the universe. Pythagoras thought the world was composed of molecules composed of atoms arranged in various shapes (Russell ... to live up to such a standard. This brings up a new question. Can one expect to live in a community that confines its good things to few and the majority must live with second best (R...

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Through the reading of Plato's Republic and Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals the reader can see many conflicts in ideas such as the idea between Thrasymachus and Hume on Justice. Thrasymachus believes that justice is simply the advantage of the stronger, ruling class. (Plato 14) Hume on the other hand believes that justice is significant for its usefulness. For example, if there were a society where everyone was an ... things necessary. According to Thrasymachus" idea on justice the stronger or ruling class should be the beneficiary of justice. So say a law is passed that...

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... someone else's work. The act of finding the information to put the paper together on my own, coupled with knowledge that was gained from doing so, led me to feelings of happiness, and self-fulfillment. If I had viewed this dilemma from another point-of-view, I could have viewed it from a nihilist's stance. This view is somewhat unjust as discussed in Plato's Republic. I would have only ... been looking out for my own gain, (a grade,) had I cheated, I would have left myself open to being caught by my professor. (Therefore ruining any chance of true virtue.) Getting caught would have chan...

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... estimate goes naturally a belief in its immorality. The Sophists believed that whatever enforces power in the State is right, or in whatever the State said was right, was then made (or called) right. (The argument of "might is right" is in the Republic, with Thrasymachus as the Sophist arguing with Socrates.) Reacting against the Sophists' teachings, Socrates (or more accurately, Plato in the Republic) preached an absolutist view, saying that what ... is right is not necessarily enforced by the State. Rather, there is a permanent, absolute, and unchanging reality (the world of Forms, or...

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... his definition of justice when he says, "Minding one's own business". In Plato's Republic, Socrates was asked by his friend Glaucon what were his ideas of a perfect and just city and how it could be attained. Throughout the text, Socrates and his companions had been getting close to what "justice" ... who didn't buy into minding their own business is doing injustice. Another individual characteristic of minding one's business is the idea of no one having what is not theirs, and also that no one should have something taken that is rightfully theirs (433e). This statement ... to him, his ...

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