... presentation) imitate a character. Furthermore, where that imitated character has undesirable traits, the imitation is to be avoided. And later, in Book X, Plato claims that most poetry of necessity contains evil men (in order to produce interest and pleasure), and this too forms a basis for a wide-ranging condemnation of poetry. That imitation has harmful effects is a complex matter; Plato's argument rests on ... Plato). In short, such imitation deludes the senses and does not appeal to reason; this claim is based on Plato's categories of the soul. His conceptualization of both the pol...

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... the reverse method, Locke believed that, we humans spin our web first and then learn from the whole experience. We do not gain ideas from within ourselves, but we acquire them from without. Even in his second book he explained further that ideas are derived from two sources: sensation and perception ... giving many metaphors including the Adam as one of the examples. Finally, in the 'Second Treatise on Civil Government', he said that men are naturally in the state of equality. He thought that all humans are born free. Also, a man's moral equality got nothing to do with his physical p...

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... been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception ... homage to them. In fact, the frequent use of myths in many of his poems proves that, Tennyson believed not to stagnate in a melancholic state. Rather through going back to classical myths, he is trying at least to find a sort of solution to some extents. Because of the ...

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