... poet because of imitation and he imitates actions" (Poetics, IX, p82). Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). Where Socrates puts it to Glaucon that an imitator is ... Republic, X, p52), that is, causing a harmful effect upon the individual, which thus corrupts the state if practiced on a wide scale (the political state being the prime concern of Plato). In short, such imitation deludes the senses and does not appeal to reason; this claim is based on ... Plato'...

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... theories in many fields, including the economic and well as the political field as well. Plato believed that ownership of private property could constrict man's reasoning abilities and thus restricted the Guardian classes from ownership. Aristotle on the other hand, approved of it but stated that any ... to property was the most significant as compared to right to life and liberty. It was most sacred. He didn't not agree to Aristotle's notion of private property but somehow greed to Rousseau's notions on the same, who believed that once property ownership has become concentrated in ... ar...

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... Greek, and what it would have 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, and mind, with perception receiving ... and excessive subjectivity, instead the Victorian project found literary and artistic means of bridging a series of what they considered to be binary oppositions such as: self and society, personal and ...

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