... that porn, or at least all of what is often considered porn, actually dehumanizes persons (n.b. McKinnon defines porn in a more restricted way). - Argues that ultimately censorship causes the ultimate harm: the loss of the right of citizens to self-determination. - Does NOT argue that all porn is unobjectionable, nor that it will cause no harm at all. Bottom Line: Porn can be bad ... : a shepherd finds a ring in a cave on a corpse. Putting it on, he realizes that if messes with it, he can become invisible. Almost immediately he sheds his boring life as a shepherd and kills the king, take...

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... in order to escape from this faux reality, one must become enlightened. One must want to discover new ideas and strive for an ultimate truth to escape the limitations of the cave. Plato believes that there are invisible truths lying under what we normally see. However an important question remains: How can we make flight from this false sense of reality and see ... promotes being true to one's self and not being a tool of faulty reasoning and bias. Another quote that relates to the Plato's cave allegory is: "Which is it? Is man only God's mistake or God only man's mistake?- This raises ...

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... as well through using the proper way of the Forms. He says the world emerges from chaos, but it is fixable through knowledge. He explains that the "real" world is the world of Forms and the visible world is changeable, relating the world of Forms to a mathematical explanation. These are always in a state of becoming. The forms are invisible to the eye, in the intelligible world. That ... there has to be thought and purpose behind things. Plato believes the nature if human beings is rational, ... and these good constitutions taking root in a good education improve more and more, and this ...

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... mentions that there is a visible world and an invisible world. The first level in the invisible world is reason. Plato refers to reason as the good, the true, the beautiful, courage and justice. Plato believed that if a person had all these qualities they were in the level of reason and they were knowledgeable to be philosophers. The second level of the invisible world is understanding. In understanding, Plato refers to things ... to keep expanding his brain. A true philosopher is characterized by his love for the truth because if he loves truth then he will always be honest. Plato also...

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... element to which everything else can be reduced. To explain how solid objects are formed from air, he introduced the notions of condensation and rarefaction. These processes, he claimed, make air, in itself invisible, visible as water, fire, and solid matter. He thought that air becomes warmer and turns into fire when it rarefied and that it turns colder and turns solid ... have been built up of small parts that are never changed. Soon enough began her study of the infamous Socrates. Socrates was a very different man. His belief in a purely objective understanding of such concepts as lo...

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... as trees, human bodies and animals, which can be known through the senses, are merely shadowy, imperfect copies of their Forms. For every sense object in the empirical world, there is a corresponding perfect Form. These Forms are nonphysical, permanent, eternal, and invisible. How then, you may ask, can one ever know of the Forms if they cannot be known by sense perception? Plato answers ... this question by stating that the Forms are known in thought. They are the objects of thought, therefore, whenever you are thinking, you are thinking of Forms. An ... constructs an idea of the man,...

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... world from a pervious form, it forgets that knowledge. In this world, the soul has no experience of perfection, and therefore, cannot remember the forms. Yet, when the soul is confronted with something resembling the forms, it recollects what it once knew. When the soul resided in the invisible realm, it experienced perfect forms and retained that knowledge. This is called learning, but Plato believed it is ... of mental and bodily training. They are set in command over the appetites which form the greater part of man's soul. Therefore, the reason and spirit have to control these appeti...

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... his dad to take charge, as it seems his mother runs things. The canted angle allows you to see the mother at the top of the stairs looking down on James and her husband. This also illustrates the failure of the father to be the man of the house. Also seen in the cinematography is the use of framings. The three films examined had many frames within frames on characters. For example ... , in Night when Keechie and Bowie first meet, they are framed with in a car window. In Rebel, the beginning of the film brings together James, Judy, and Plato ... answering questions with questions, or with ...

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... find the truth. He did this by first analyzing his own life and the fetters and bearers who used shadows to keep him from reaching the roadway to wisdom. It has proved to be an effective assessment not only when he was alive but even up until today. The parable symbolizes man's struggle ... to reach understanding and enlightenment and is a universal and everlasting concept. Plato used the bearers in his parable to symbolize people who control what we see and do, people who ... we will watch. They limit us by allowing only what they want to reach us and penetrate our minds and lives. Th...

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