... class can be with any person they want then there is no reason to be jealous. Secondly the common wives and children break away from the natural family setting of husband, wife, and kids. With common wives and children everyone in the whole city is family, every child is everyones", every woman is ... a mother and every man is a father. With this in place, Socrates feels that it removes any sense of competition among the leaders. Since no one has ... a single wife or child there is no argument about whose offspring will be the next ruler. Finally, the common wives and children wave emph...

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... rest of our lives with. Love can also make us feel different emotions depending on how the love is carried out. Phadreus claims that love gives us a sense of shame for acting badly and a sense of pride for acting well. Another positive aspect of love is that is helps us to overcome selfishness therefore leading to happiness and fulfillment. What are some ... 't come from imitating God. Instead, happiness comes from getting into the right relationship with God" (Graham). Lastly, Plato talked about the obstacle of one trying to overcome the forces of common Aphrodite to transcend into Heav...

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... doing well or badly, they"ll say that "mine" is doing well or that "mine" is doing badly."3 This way, the citizens will have the same thing in common, thus, they will have "common pleasures and pains."4 The standard family of the time is being broken apart, so the people of the city form one big family. Now, the people will no ... " clearly unites all the citizens in Plato's perfect society. Along with the idea of anonymous parents and children, is the more general sense of "commonality" shown as Plato describes that not only will children and wives be common amongst the people, but so w...

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... in the knowledge of virtue and virtuous behavior. His idea of truth was somewhat ambiguous, as he was always questioning ideas that were considered to be common virtues. In the Apology, he states that he does not know the truth. I interpret that as saying that he can not see the virtue in ... nature. But, at the same time, he thought it could be found in many forms. Still any form of it would be considered to have a common thread, which is the ultimate truth. Aristotle would agree with Plato that there is one truth. He assesses that truth is contained in nature. Nature, being ... be trut...

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... is concerned I think that you don't necessarily need to be well educated or be extremely smart to understand the difference between the good and the bad. All it takes is common sense to define the good and the bad to stay away from trouble. However, I do agree with him when he says that people need moderation because without moderation people wouldn't be ... to each other. It doesn't a genius to analyze a situation and figure out how things connect together and how things won't work the same way if they lack something. It takes common sense to write something and find people to believe ...

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... of Senses and The World of Ideas. The World of Ideas illustrates how things can be called by the same name. It is because they all have something in common. He called this common factor the thing's form or idea. Plato insisted that the forms differ greatly from the ordinary things that we see around us. Ordinary things change but their forms ... . The "cave-dwellers killed Socrates because he disturbed their conventional ideas and tried to shed some light on true insight. "The Myth of The Cave illustrates Socrates" courage and his sense of pedagogic responsibility." So, this story did ha...

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... already inherited at birth. This theory again infers that the soul existed before birth; this also infers that it exists after death; therefore it makes logical sense that a soul that could survive death must have a high level of intellect. This theory explains why scientists claim to "discover" new knowledge of medicines ... and space, rather than "making," as they already have prior knowledge of the subject. A common criticism of this theory is that all people have varying levels of intellect; therefore if God is omnibenevolent and treats all people equally it would seem to ... eternal...

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... take over his (the father) tittle which Abelard would later refuse to become. From then on, Abelard would move on with his life across France. Abelard would later have a strong sense of logic and even refuted the concept of Universalism. He explained that the pursuit of an ideal universal is not cohesive and offers a nominalist view to nullify the Universalism and ... for his theory of language. Universalism has been very predominant theory of ideal. What most Universalists have in common is that they all conceptualized the Universe as being uppermost real. Plato's Universality can be e...

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... happiness is the goal rather than individual happiness. Aristotle strongly opposed his master when it came to these points but before his rebuttals are unmasked it is important to get a sense of where the two philosophers resemble one another. Like Plato, Aristotle strongly believed that happiness is more than just simple pleasure. "Happiness does not consist in amusement. It would be ... lack of a key to all virtues is a lack of unity of all virtues. This could explain Aristotle's belief of the two types of virtues considering they are not linked by a common virtue. Although prudence c...

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... , theoretically, are voting for the single most "excellent" citizen of our nation. That is we are voting for that citizen who can do the best job of working toward our common interest. The citizen of a state who has the greatest ability to work towards the salvation of the constitution has a great gift that can benefit all citizens. It only makes ... sense to allow that particular individual to lead the rest of the citizens in working towards the common interests of the state. In conclusion, these men were great thinkers. Their opinions on society and its function were quite different, b...

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... morals. We find that we are actually discussing government. For there will never be true justice, only our conformed moral sense of what is acceptable and unacceptable. This leads us to many forms of government. If we discuss justice in the sense of religion or religious beliefs ,justice has a whole new meaning. Justice now becomes the writings and beliefs of a conformed religion ... self-sufficient; no one working alone can acquire all of the necessities of life. In order to resolve this difficulty, people gather together into society for the mutual achievement of common goals. Socrate...

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"In a sense, no doubt, the separation of the "true" from the "false," the "real" from the "illusory," has been the task of thought at all times." (Willey 22). We are helped in ... of Forms, there is the 'World of Appearances' and the 'Intelligible World.' The world of appearances include imagining and belief. Imagining is the lowest form of perception and belief is common-sense thinking without actual knowledge. The world of appearances is unreal because it includes visible things and images. The intelligible world includes thinking and intelligence. Thinking is understanding but not quite ....

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... extreme. In the book of Politics, Aristotle points out the many flaws of Plato's ideal state and creates ideas of his own. First, Aristotle objects to Plato's suggestion to have common children in the state. It is argued that if people didn't know who their real child was, there would be so many possible children for them that they wouldn't treat ... any of them like their own. Additionally, with common children, the taboo of slaying your father or incest would be a much higher possibility. Also, there is always the possibility of figuring out who your real children are, either by ... ...

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Plato is the founder of political philosophy. The Republic is the first attempt to give a thorough and systematic account of how the common life of women and men ought to be structured. For Plato this means, above all, raising and answering the question of justice: what is justice and why should it be ... preferred to injustice? Answering this question would also mean describing injustice and showing why it is to be rejected. The Republic is more than a work on politics in our narrower sense of the term. It is also more than a work on ethics, that is, on how the individual should live rightly...

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... is, in short, what underlies the existence of the universe. Aristotle's view of metaphysics came from his interest in Biology (Durant 56). Aristotle's metaphysics is, to some, Plato diluted by common sense (Russell 162). Plato's theory of ideas is partly metaphysical, and partly logical. An example of Plato's metaphysics is as follows: the logical part of the sentence "that is a cat" would ... voiced even louder with the discovery that where there seems to be nothing, there is air. That is an example of the confusing mix of logic and observation, which was common. One might say, there i...

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... they must have. He uses several images in doing so. Although his view is quite contentious for this period in Ancient Greece, and even now, it not only makes perfect sense, he presents it in an intelligible and convincing manner. However, as compelling, clever, and unchanging with time as it is, obtaining this state is exceedingly implausible because it is far ... of the reality of ideas, not knowledge itself. Furthermore, philosophers are adept at appreciating perpetual, static truths. To Socrates, this in no way suggests that philosophers are deficient in the common sense of leading a...

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... for government. Unfortunately, people need laws that would prevent them from becoming hostile or aggressive in competition for scarce goods. If people acted according to Plato's theory, which in some sense could be considered a perfect world, then there would be no need for a governing source. Since conflict will most likely always arise when it comes to a person's needs, a governing source is ... their own unique ideas of natural human conditioning, but each realize that a government is necessary despite their governments being used to serve different purposes. I feel that they are ass...

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... his claim. What led Parmenides to believe that change does not exist and that existence lasts forever? Parmenides maintains that whatever one speaks about or thinks about must in some sense exist. If it did not exist then it is nothing, so one would be speaking or thinking about nothing, which would be empty. It can be assumed that the existing ... a premise that whatever one thinks or speaks about exists. If this is true then why aren't there any unicorns roaming around, money trees growing on every corner, or any other common fantasies coming to fruition? If nothing ever changes then ...

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... scientific reasoning. The problem of "basic substance" and "transformation" had been so complicated that it took centuries for philosophers to figure it out. Finally, Democritus solved this issue using his common sense. (Sophie, 1995)...

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... shadows being made by creatures dancing in front of a fire behind them. This is all they know; these shadows are the prisoners" reality. ( Halsted notes October 6, 2003) Plato's calls this common sense. The Second stage is Recognition. The prisoners now break their chains and headgear and turn to see the creatures that are walking in front of the fire. Now they realize ... ...

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I Remember It All Plato's doctrine of recollection states that rather than "learning" in the common sense, what is in reality occurring when people think, and eventually find an answer or solution to a problem, is that they are "recollecting" concepts they already knew. It is, in Plato's ... ...

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... grasp on their philosophy of life, for as much as the two contradict one another, they also tie in with each other and logically, I believe, one can almost not make sense without the other. I was assigned to choose one of the two whose beliefs I agree with more for this essay. Personally, as I mentioned already, I think neither is completely valid and I also ... cannot always be identified as accurately as the direct physical senses, without feelings such as love or fear. If a human falsely identifies love, or hate for that matter, which are common mistakes people make throughout life, ...

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... there are often nagging doubts about their own perceptions of themselves. They fear that to acknowledge their weaknesses is to undermine their own confidence in living. Consequently they develop a false sense of esteem as a survival mechanism. The values they have embraced remain unquestioned, and any suggestion that these values may be unsustainable engenders real anxiety and panic. Lacking the courage to ... Republican and the Biblical traditions. The first of these they apparently named as Republican because it espouses the values found in Plato's classic, "The Republic." The Biblica...

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Plato's Cave Allegory The Cave allegory Plato spoke about was not attributed to a "cave" in the literal sense, but rather to an inner "cave" that resides in all individuals. He referenced rows of people at different levels; the first only knows a wall with shadows. On the elevation behind ... of other and the various objects they carry. All of the people within the cave, both those facing the wall and those on the elevated wall have one thing in common; they are all "prisoners". Some have knowledge of objects and materials and of others existence, but they are held captive from the "true" ou...

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... help people to achieve human excellence. If there were no justice then our society would be a destructive one. Justice is in one sense the greatest virtue for it is the key to making other virtues work together for the common good. Justice though, can be refuted and has been. Laws have been fought against and changed which is why our right to ... ...

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