What is religion? According to an Oxford dictionary, religion is the belief in the existence of a supernatural ruling power, the creator and the controller of the universe, who has given to man a spiritual nature, which continues to ... say that this is rather extreme point of view. Religion is at all times more or less both traditional and individual; external and internal; institutional, rational, and volitional. It always answers more or less to the needs of authority and society; of reason and proof, of intererior substance and purification. Some might say that actual religion is ever an...

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Plato was known for his use of irony in his writings, and when Socrates addresses the court in "The Apology," these aspects are apparent to most readers. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, the Socratic method of teaching is "the method of teaching in which the master imparts no information, but asks a sequence of questions, through answering which the ... ...

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... such bountiful resources so efficiently. All of the above depict Atlantis as maintaining striking similarities to those of an advanced Bronze Age civilization. This is reaffirmed by Professor Gidon of Oxford University, (1963) who states clearly: "The Atlantis civilization described by Plato is indeed a civilization of the Bronze Age." (Bacon 19) This is also confirmed by Bacon himself: " . . . . it is impossible ... ...

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... philosophical world when she receives an envelope containing the questions, "Who are you?"" and "Where does the world come from?"" Simple as those questions may seem, they have very deep answers. She also received a postcard addressed to Hilde Moller Knag which started the biggest mystery of her life. She was introduced to different philosophers and their "projects"" from the pre-Socratics ... , existence and the norms. People ask these kinds of questions when they are young but as they grow up, they are left unanswered realizing that those questions take a lifetime of answers. Gaarder's...

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... and another. The quote, "Art upsets, science reassures" conveys how science serves to reify nature, while art fails and upsets the natural science. Often we find it hard to find answers through art and instead we are presented with questions, which explores the purpose and the significance of being alive and being human. However, science attempts to explain and verify the ... much time on this theme, as theirs is no way to verify an answer to this question unless you die yourself. Whereas art offers opportunity to wonder and explore alternative answers to questions, which cannot be answ...

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... the conversation is a fundamental break from what has previously occurred in the story. Socrates begins questioning Cephalus out of natural curiosity. Socrates' philosophy is about asking questions and finding the answers through rational inquiry, discovering inevitable missteps along the way. He admires Cephalus' positive opinions on aging and death, but then inquires about Cephalus' happiness, wondering if he owes it all ... people, refining their definition of something and hoping that together they would reach a better understanding. The flaw of this method is that it assumes that S...

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... temple robbery or anything else, whether the wrongdoer be your father your mother or anyone else; to not prosecute is impious. Socrates was not satisfied by the vague and unfulfilling answers that Euthypro and often would ask him questions such as " What then do we say about the pious, Euthyphro? Surely that is being loved by all the gods, according to ... loved, but it is not being loved because it is god-loved. Socrates in turn is trying to teach Euthypro to think more logically and be able to explain his answers to the question he was being asked, instead of actually getting his own ...

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... the bold spirit of each citizen. It was possible, naturally, that in this effort to soothe the painful loss of Athenian soldiers after battle, Pericles fabricated or at least over enhanced the true greatness of the polis Athens. However, The Funeral Oration did in fact describe Athens in a fairly accurate frame. The democratic ways in this city-state led to a new ... ...

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... the bold spirit of each citizen. It was possible, naturally, that in this effort to soothe the painful loss of Athenian soldiers after battle, Pericles fabricated or at least over enhanced the true greatness of the polis Athens. However, The Funeral Oration did in fact describe Athens in a fairly accurate frame. The democratic ways in this city-state led to a new ... ...

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... the truth amongst this facade seemed all but lost. When Socrates met Diotima and asked her to instruct him on her wisdom of Love, it seemed that she had the answers he had been looking for. Her growing need to share her wisdom became the impetus for Socrates to refocus his vision toward divine truth. Diotima's want to teach and Socrates ... ...

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... one of the building blocks of crucial, objective and logical discussion. Plato (427- 347 BCE) Plato, who was not just a philosopher but also a mathematician was always looking for the exact answers for everything. Plato's main doctrine is that the world that appears to our senses is in some way defective and filled with error, but there is a more real and perfect ... ...

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... nature. It is our human nature to question; Plato considered the bringing of our existence, the nature of reality, and the notion of the soul. As humans we also seek answers; however the common principle underpinning all religion is the human instinctive intension to seek and possess the ability to influence our fortune on this world and the next. It is ... ...

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... , that is, why imitate at all and can we obtain knowledge and/or pleasure through it Both Plato and Aristotle, the foremost philosophers of their time, arrived at widely different answers to the questions above. This is because art was held to be an imitation of nature or reality, and Plato and Aristotle's theories on nature and reality were widely different ... ...

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... a good life would be and how would one go about of achieving such a life has been a concern for many philosophers. Here we reach a point where a wide array of radically different answers are provided by philosophers as to what is the good life or complete life. For Plato, the good life was that in which through rational analysis and thought an individual ... ...

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... , its bearing on human emotions, and how it affects religious views. A question that every philosopher of time faces is whether or not time flows or is stationary. The two possible answers, that time flows as a rate of change with respect to something else, or that people advance through a stationary time, are constantly in debate. If time actually does flow, it would ... ...

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... these pursuits (547). Socrates is channeling his proof, and mine, through the value and effectiveness coming from the pursuit, not the simple acquisition of such thought through simple questions and answers. The loftiness is a chase that will only make what Phaedrus is attempting to attain somehow better, stronger and truer. I consider the above-mentioned quote to be one of the most ... ...

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... ) there had to be "something" that all things came from and returned to. Instead of continuously relying on ancient Greek myths, philosophers attempted to come up with logical explanations and answers to their questions of where "things" came from and how they "transformed" in nature. Two of these early philosophers were Parmenides and Heraclitus. Both gave contributions from their thoughts on ... ...

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... criticism encapsulates one of the most fundamental arguments against Plato's theory of Forms and general willingness to draw conclusions. There is no "answer" to the question, as there are no answers to many of philosophy's most fundamental questions. There is a certain beauty to the option Plato presents. Rather than eschew all judgement and conclusion because of the imperfections of human sensory ... ...

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... grasp these concepts of geometry because he is just imitating the Forms from knowledge in a previous life. Here in lies a paradox, the Forms are thought of as themselves being the answers to the questions, such as "what is X", or, in Meno, what is the value of X line that gives us an eight-foot figure with in a square. The boy cannot answer ... ...

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... to follow the rites, a gentleman would question where a philosopher might not. The only way to gain new knowledge about the world around us is to propose questions and explore their answers through various ways. Since the gentleman would be open to ascertaining new views that make way for progress of the city, they would be better at enabling their society to ... ...

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