... more sense 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. ... the proper and correct view. 1) How would Plato and Socrates react to Aristotle's polity? Plato and Socrates both believed in one singular truth and also in having an insatiable knowledge for it. This goes against Aristotle's middle constitution, because if there is one truth, there should be no ro...

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... agency. Hegel then offered some more details to justify Kant's view. He told that it's impossible to discuss aesthetics without talking about a theory of art. Aesthetic judgment is a bridge between our sensuous and the intellectual that could be the means of access to the world of ideas. In the nineteenth century, the aesthetics expressed as art. The traditional aesthetics was hard to trace by this time. People ... direct experience. Because Plato talks about Form of Beauty, that is just an illusion from long time ago, this theory doesn't work anymore for the twentieth century. The theo...

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... of Plato offered him a more compelling view of morality than did the dualism of Manichaeism. This school of philosophy, neoplatonism, was the intellectual bridge that allowed Augustine to move from pagan life to Christian life. Suffice to say, Augustine used this philosophy in the service of Christianity but some Christian beliefs are irreconcilable with neoplatonism. A striking example of the influence of Plato on Augustine is Augustine's critical ... appropriation of the ancient concept of eros. An important component of the philosophy of love and desire ... ...

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