... war, so that they see the work they"ll have to do when they become adults" (Plato, Republic, 466e-467a). The participation of both genders in battle creates unity and respect in the state. Instead of men defending only the nation and women the household, they unite and the entirety of the community, its borders and its households are defended by an elite and passionate group of ... warriors. In The Laws, Plato says that a state is not complete ... sill deemed inferior to men, still departs with the popular conception of feminism in the ancient world, and especially departs from that pro...

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... there was one bravery that was common to all these braveries, and is what makes them "brave." Plato sculpted this idea into his theory of Forms. The Forms are, basically, essences--they are that which truly defines a thing. By the time of the Republic, Plato had come around to the view that everything had Forms--not just virtues, but tangible things like beds, chairs, etc. We ... of seeking the higher good of the Forms, which were the key by which humans could come to an understanding of the truth of their universe and lead happier, fuller lives. Plato's rejection of the senses, and adh...

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... ours is today. In order to provide protection and expansion in his republic, an army of guardians are selected to serve as rulers. A problem arises when he realizes that military rule could easily lead to a dictatorship. Plato then proposed an educational system in order to prevent a dictatorship by educating the guardians so that they will be gentle towards their own people, yet ... of classes they want to take. Most people in today's society, even leaders, finish their education much earlier than they would in the Republic. Our current educational system also does not require militar...

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... make their desire their will. Plato, the great Greek philosopher, further expounds on the procedure of how reason effects will in his books, The Republic and Phaedrus. In the Republic, he makes the case that the person's soul is divided into three parts, the rational, the spirited and the appetitive; all of these have a certain desire that they follow. The appetitive, the desire for pleasure and survival, aims for the physical objects of desire. This ... allegory to clarify the details. In Phaedrus, Plato explains that the three parts are like parts of a chariot: the charioteer, the whi...

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... ; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. And there, I said to myself, you will be detected; now you will find out that you are more ignorant than they are." (Socrates in Plato 6) Here we see that he genuinely believes that people in their specific areas of expertise will be wiser than he himself is. He wants to prove his doubt in knowledge ... workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom." (Socrates in Plato 7) Socrates began with doubting the idea of whether specialists such as politicians and artisans were the wisest...

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... of mind, but rather a blueprint by which objects in the material world are created. These various assertions are best characterized by Plato's allegorical "Cave" described in The Republic. The slaves working deep underground never dare to journey upward and see the light, but prefer by choice, fear, or habit to stay down and see only the shadows of the forms which the light projects on the wall. The shadows can best be thought of ... as images hinting at the "truth" or eternal forms beyond our comprehension ... ...

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... justice, or for caring about other people's interests" and moreover, that sanctioned ideas about justice are only held by the inferior who desire to suppress the power of those superior. The objective standards of produce a strong tension between Callicles and Socrates, as Socrates sees morality as the only way of life and Callicles claims that, "a correct conception of an admirable person, and of a ... morality, which could be considered unjust and therefore corrupting to his pupils, no to mention the audience. Upon researching Plato's views on objective standards of morality, we learn ...

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... the ideals of classical Greek society that were mirrored in Castiglione's work. His advice to the courtier during a time of arms was to seek deserved glory, honor, and excellence, a reverberation of the Greek value of arete. Literature was not the only genre affected by humanism. Neoplatonism was birthed from it as well. Neoplatonism during the Renaissance was a revival of Platonism, a dualistic philosophy based on Plato's Republic ... . In this book, Plato categorized the world into two realms, one of visible reality and ... Platonis opera omnia (Complete Works of Plato) in 1484 (Plato 2...

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... of literature had already been presented by a Greek philosopher who lived around the 5th century and the 4th BC. So logically, the early development of literature cannot be separated from social activities and influenced by elements of culture and social circumstances. Sociology of literature has been the first time developed by Plato. In his document by the title "Ion and Republic", Plato discussed the relationship between the literary works and society. He ... believed that everything in this world was actually just an imitation of the highest fact in the world of thought (Damono, 201...

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... parties arose throughout the world. They included the Fatherland Front, led by Engelbert Dollfuss in Austria, the Falange founded by Jose Antonio Primo in Spain, the Cross of Fire, renamed the French Social Party led by Colonel Francois de La Rocque, the Gentile National Socialist Movement and the South Africa Fascists, both in South Africa, the Ku Klux Klan in the United States, and the military dictatorship of ... and sourced to different thinkers such as Rousseau, Fichte, Carlyle, Hegel, Nietzche and even Plato, in his Republic (Segre, 2002). Political theorists, historians and write...

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... beliefs are changed and evolve regardless of what was previously socially accepted is displayed through the actions conducted by the Canadian government during the Second World War. According to CBC news, during this time frame the Canadian government rallied 22 000 Canadians with Japanese origins and forcibly evacuated them from the west coast. They were then victims of heinous crimes and many Japanese lives were subsequently ... he was exposed to as common and acceptable behaviors. Music in this case is meant to be censored so that the content citizens are exposed to will influence the...

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... of Egyptian thought. Martin Bernal (Bernal, 1989) in his Black Athena likens Plato's republic to the Egyptian State form, he examines the similarities of Plato's writings and states "The only reason for doubting that the Republic was based on Egypt is the fact that he does not say so in the text" emphasizing the similarities. Bernal also examines the other "borrowed " traditions "Gnostics, Christians, Platonists, Aristotelians, and Pythagoreans, all did only decorate ... that we think with our sense organs swell, therefore it would be ideal for the splits to work together. This lack of ...

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... , " it turns out that doing one's work is justice- (Plato 180). Justice can only be executed when people perform those functions naturally mandated to them, as this ensures the total good of the city. Thus, Plato divides the city into two socioeconomic groups: the common people, the farmers and craftsmen who control the wealth of the republic, and the guardians who by virtue of their nature and superior education are vested with ... the responsibility of ruling and protecting the citizens. This stratification of society, and unequal distribution of power is ... ...

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... , " it turns out that doing one's work is justice- (Plato 180). Justice can only be executed when people perform those functions naturally mandated to them, as this ensures the total good of the city. Thus, Plato divides the city into two socioeconomic groups: the common people, the farmers and craftsmen who control the wealth of the republic, and the guardians who by virtue of their nature and superior education are vested with ... the responsibility of ruling and protecting the citizens. This stratification of society, and unequal distribution of power is ... ...

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... 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 eyewitness account of his mentor's (Socrates) trial and execution. Bitter and angered by the political corruption that gripped the Athenian democratic government, he ... is flexible, part liberal and part conservative. Plato's ideal society is so difficult to conceive that Aristotle believes that no human being can achieve its...

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... to bring up the ancient thinker Plato. In the Republic, Plato outlines many ideas which parallel Machiavelli's. Both support this converted form of fascism, a celebration of governing power. Plato advocates a true aristocracy, or rule by the best philosopher-kings, and Machiavelli essentially advocates rule by the best man--"best" as evidenced by who can get to the top. Both agreee on the idea of the Noble Lie, or lie told by the leader to the believing masses ... . Aditionally (and this comes straight from the Republic; the idea of a coupling, a marriage, inherent both in Plato's words ...

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... are currently very controversial. In The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Apology, Phaedo, and The Republic, it is evident how Thucydides and Plato define each of these aforementioned ideas. Thucydides and Plato have differing opinions about what makes equality existent or nonexistent in a society and how this equality or inequality creates inferiority and difference between individuals. In The History of the Peloponnesian War it is clear ... of inequalities of functions. Each person's techne or specialization is determined by the type of soul he has. In Phaedo, Plato touches on Soc...

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... be virtuous one must possess Merit, Valor, and have beneficial qualities. One must know and act upon what is good, what is right. Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. The four virtues consist of, courage, temperance, wisdom and justice. For Socrates a virtue is a particular thing or attribute. It is something possessed ... as "what ever is in the interest of the stronger party in a given state. People in power make laws and the weaker party is supposed to follow those laws.""(339D) Thus, according to Thrasymach...

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... grants power to an entire people, whereas a republic grants the power to a select group chosen to represent the people. In a democracy the "majority rules" - and the minority loses. This system is subject to abuse however, because as Plato said "A democracy is a state in which the poor gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally." This is to say that ... occurs throughout the history of the Republic: Class division, and respect for tradition. From the earliest beginnings, the Roman society was based upon the divis...

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... between its members, or any peoples related by treaty would form a single city; in this way, Aristotle rejects the minimalist conception of the function of a city described by Glaucon in Book II of Plato's Republic and later endorsed by Epicurus and by Hobbes. Rather, the function of a city is to enable the citizens to live well, and this requires the development in them and the reinforcement of virtues of thought and character ... , through the educational system and through its laws. [COMMENT: Aristotle ... ...

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... and carry the connotation of rule of the people and by the people, but the bone of contention is the process by which these distinguish democratic ideas are put into practise. The most important aspect of both these forms is the participatory nature, whereas one of them entails the active participation of the populace in the discussion and decision making process, the other is concern with the delegation of ... argument is that direct form of democracy can be more democratic than the representative form in so doing will focus on the REPRESENTATION and DECISION MAKING process. Representa...

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... in nature than the very individualistic American paradigm, and appeals to Kant's deontological imperatives. As far as the ethicality of the public health care system in regards to the treatment of physicians, it seems most rewarding to look to the description of physician as depicted by Plato in The Republic. In book one he addresses the duality of the practice of an art form, and the practice of earning ... a wage. He expresses the notion of the practitioner of art as one who's ... sole purpose is the fulfillment of that art form's requirements, and the benefit of those who are the re...

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... Marx on Democracy, Participating, Voting, and Equality". The 1980's was the last decade of the cold war between the United States of America and the Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Anti-communist sediment was at an all time high in the United States, mainly to propagate public support for the underground war lead by Central Intelligence Agency against the Soviet Union. Consequently, the majority of scholarly journals whose writings pertained ... and capitalists. She specifically singles out Marx's theory on participatory democracy. Marx, unlike democratic reformist critics su...

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... predestined to be philosophers while sages are not determined at birth. However the main difference in the two lies in how they interact with the world around them once they attain the guardian or gentleman status. First of all, Plato would have his guardians feel no attachment to those around them whereas Confucius emphasizes the importance of relationships with family and friends. In addition, while gentlemen ... , guardians remain silent. Finally, when guardians are ready to become philosophers, it is because they came to know the forms. On the other hand, when gentleman becomes a sag...

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... -. He feels that since man, as individuals, strives for happiness, then man, as a collective group, should strive for the happiness of the state. Since it is now established what the ideal state should aim for, we may begin at what and by the Ideal State is composed. The Ideal State, of which Aristotle thought of, has as its quality of land that which is most universally ... easily accessible from both sea and land. Aristotle also felt that walls and other such defensive protections should guard the town itself. The defenders of the town must always seek additional means of defense by th...

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