... their children to school or hire private tutors to teach their children the fine arts of music, rhetoric, philosophy and gymnastics, which was considered very important by the Greeks. Plato states that everyone possesses natural abilities that should be refined by education. Plato realized that everyone should be educated in his or her field of expertise in order to maximize the total ... education of everyone according to his or her own ability, in order to improve the over all production possibility of society is a basic Communist concept. Many attributes and ideas in Plato's dialogue T...

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... also some differences politically behind their theories, which ends up being the result of how they view human beings and their roles within society. In Plato's 'The Republic," each person in society served a function and had a job that suited their personality. He believed that the natural ... The Republic" that the guardian is to be a really good and noble guardian of the state who will unite in himself philosophy, spirit, swiftness and strength (Plato, pg. 9). In other words, the guardian's position in the state was required so that the people in the state would ... conditions ...

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... ship. The captain can not be expected to understand and run all aspects of their everyday city operation just as the ruler can not be. Plato's captain is not given credit for his work and functions onboard a ship. Not all captains/leaders suffer from "blindness" about what is happening under ... does not want to be a martyr. Socrates is trying to explain how an uneducated society thinks foolishly of the one who has knowledge/wisdom in philosophy and governing. The politicians form small power groups in order to control the society as they see fit for their own benefits. The people of ......

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... of life. There are several philosophers whom I had similar views to: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Karl Marx, Abraham Maslow, and to a lesser extent Plato. What all these philosophers have in common is that they believe in an intellectual and spiritual development of the human being that is completely detached from the ... desires, the spiritual or emotional, and the rational part concerned with obtaining wisdom. The highest and best of these three parts is the rational part. Plato then creates a parallel between the soul and the State. The appetitive side represents the workers, the spirited, ...

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The main objective in Plato's philosophy is a creation of a perfect society. He constructs a foundation for a utopian society in his book "The Republic". The purpose of his thought process was to cleanse his society of the woes he felt plagued it and construct a new one. Plato lived during the Peloponnesian War, which consequently lead to the end of the Athenian democracy. He had ... the Athenian democratic government, he disengaged from participating in politics. He strongly felt that neither a moral individual nor a state that is rational could be established in a democratic environment. Pla...

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... "literature influences or 'shapes' society literature functions socially to maintain and stabilize" (425). For my theory on the relationship between literature and society, I am using Plato, Wordsworth, Marx, Bakhtin, Fitzgerald, Mitchell, and Althusser. I believe that literature and society cannot function without each other and that literature is a direct reflection of what is happening in ... 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. During Plato'...

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... in fact instated the proper formulation of this concept of synchronized, cooperative, and rule abiding society by a means of a structured ruling body. Plato has his theory of a sort of tyranny of the intellectuals, Mills has his theory of happiness and preservation of nature, that should rise above ... promoted these intention (malicious or not). A just dictatorship may sound ludicrous simply by its mere definition, yet Plato went as far as promoting it as a model for a perfectly harmonized society. His idea that philosophy was the path to a sort of "nirvana", where the best of things are...

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... person's culture. Anthropologist Ruth Benedict uses the examples of homosexuality and murder, which are considered to many cultures as morally wrong. Benedict claims that in ancient Greece, as indicated by Plato's Republic, homosexuality was mostly approved and accepted. Homosexuality was "presented as one of the major means to good life. " (80) This clearly shows what it's believed to be immoral to ... is because I also believe that morality differs from culture to culture meaning that what is considered morally right to one culture may be seen as morally wrong to another. The philosop...

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... first being humanistic style. The value of education became more and more important as the standards of a "renaissance man" rose. This man had to be learned in the arts, music, philosophy, letters, as well as Greek and Latin writings. Most humanists would look at education as the most valuable aspect of one's standing in society. A person's value to society, in this ... learning equaled a proper being; a civilized society was built on the work of the most intelligent people. This view was not only held by humanists of the day but also by Plato (from the Republic). Because a proper renai...

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