... the political theories of two great philosophers of politics is to first examine each theory in depth. Plato is regarded by many experts as the first writer of political philosophy, and Aristotle is recognized as the first political ... scientist. These two men were great thinkers. They each had ideas of how to improve existing societies during their individual lifetimes. It is necessary to look at several areas of each theory to seek the difference in each. The main focus of Plato ... considered to mean equality, in oligarchies, again inequality in the distribution of office is consid...

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... are also some differences politically behind their theories, which ends up being the result of how they view human beings and their roles within society. In Plato's 'The Republic," each person in society served a function and had a job that suited their personality. He believed that the natural ... conditions their erratic behaviors towards taking what will satisfy their needs. When comparing "The Republic" and "The Leviathan," Plato and Hobbes have some significant differences in their view of the nature of human beings not even considering the context within the state. They ... ...

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... meaningful this work is to me. It will help an individual understand his or her philosophical aspect. The reason people today read this material from Plato is each person experiences these situations of pressure, fear, and of being informed of such experiences. This work gives a person a look on ... a life-changing experience; the real test is to not have fear returning home or to the routine of earlier years. Similarities between our society and Plato's era, is people no matter what time period, experience fear, happiness, pressure, and learn to adapt to ones surroundings. However in th...

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... 't allow him or any other artist as part of his perfect society. Plato's first argument with art is the simplicity of truth. Plato's ideas about truth begin with nature. Nature and only nature, which is created by God, can achieve the true definition of the truth. Following nature, Plato believed in God's choice to create makers. Makers are not the truth, but the maker ... on emotion was, deal with it when you are alone. Along with emotion comes patience, which Plato says: The law would say that to be patient under calamity is best, as the good and evil in such things are not clear, and ...

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... Western Philosophy. One could spend hours counting how many subsequent philosophies arouse from either his direct words or interpretations. Of all Western Philosophers, Plato was one of the greatest writers. Even though most may find his dialogues exhausting, I found it enjoyable because of the brilliant yet ... military role, and the artisans who will produce the products and goods necessary for economic growth. The philosopher rulers duties as administrators in Plato's? society or commonwealth are to legislate, educate and to keep an ever watchful eye on the auxiliaries and artisans, p...

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... 't allow him or any other artist as part of his perfect society. Plato's first argument with art is the simplicity of truth. Plato's ideas about truth begin with nature. Nature and only nature, which is created by God, can achieve the true definition of the truth. Following nature, Plato believed in God's choice to create makers. Makers are not the truth, but the maker ... on emotion was, deal with it when you are alone. Along with emotion comes patience, which Plato says: The law would say that to be patient under calamity is best, as the good and evil in such things are not clear, and ...

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... 427-347 BCE in Athens, he was Socrates' student, creating the idea of fundamental conflicts between what could be known by reason and what could be known by senses. Plato's most famous writings include the "Republic", where we can learn about his beliefs including ethics, political philosophy, ... moral psychology, epistemology, and metaphysics. The Metaphor of the Divided Line also created by Plato represents the levels of knowledge one can obtain. From this metaphor comes the Forms, and how the understanding of this Forms and applying them ... quot; actions one commits are not necessa...

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... a second school of thought. Flourishing around 400 B. C., Plato contradicted his teacher in that he left many writings, his most famous being The Republic. He believed that a higher world of unchanging forms and ideas existed. If a person knew these forms, then he knew the truth. These things, however, could only be achieved by a mind that had been properly trained. One of his idea ... government. After much comparison, he believed that the latter type of government worked the best for most people. Aristotle went on to be a tutor for Alexander the Great. Aristotle, unlike Plato, was not...

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... Plato expressed in his writings can still be used to describe the world today. Everyone begins in the dark. We enter this world a blank slate where our parents and the formal education system nurture, protect, and try to prepare us for life. After we finish school and move out of our parent's home we are rudely awakened by ... survive in today's economic society. We accept what they teach, and do not question why because we do not know for sure what lies ahead. Plato symbolizes this when he writes "human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light their ...

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... school or hire private tutors to teach their children the fine arts of music, rhetoric, philosophy and gymnastics, which was considered very important by the Greeks. Plato states that everyone possesses natural abilities that should be refined by education. Plato realized that everyone should be educated in his or her field of expertise in order to maximize the total level of productivity in society ... that all the people work towards a common goal, and do not move in their own personally desired direction, is the basis common to Communism. It is important to realize that by writing Th...

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... appearances, rather than the world of light, which is based in thought. 2) How do we learn truth? Socrates believed that truth could be attained by questioning people and situations thoroughly. He developed a method of cross examining individuals who were supposedly wise, to show that they were not. He thought ... that this questioning would eventually lead to knowledge though, which is virtuous and thereby truthful. Plato's view was somewhat different. He declares that to gain truth you must be passionately devoted to seeking it. You must have a love of ... to possess the passion requi...

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... be considered that the way Socrates percieves the equality of the two genders is a positive feature however the way he divides people in a society cannot be approved. In Plato's Republic, there is an argument about whether men and women should do the same things because they both are able to. He states that " if it's apparent that ... distributed equally in both creatures. In the book Socrates declares that " but the various natures are distributed in the same way in both creatures. Women share by nature Þn every way of life just as men do- (p. 129,455d) meaning women and men may have t...

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... living in harmony, no problems, one ruler who would be for the rich and for the poor. This is an example of Plato's view of a perfect society or what we know as a Utopia. Even though this outlook was originated by one of the greatest Philosophers it is nearly impossible for it to be attained in the world today. As stated in the ... book Plato's view of a democracy (Government Present today) is the rule of a wealthy few. Why does Plato view this as a bad form of government? The leader of a society ... is rich, therefore he only makes laws and or rules that apply to his type of people (t...

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... . The issue of the origin of music and gymnastics is addressed in "The Republic". "Music was the counterbalance of gymnastic. Music educated the guardians by habits, and taught them no science, but a fine concord by song and a fine rhythm by tune, and the words they used had in them qualities akin to these, whether the words were fabulous tales or true." 3 "They meant ... Greek civilization, is considered divine. "...God has shown us, beyond all dispute, that these beautiful poems are not human, not made by man, but divine and made by God; and the poets are nothing but the gods" interpre...

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... class. However, though a democratic state was declared, it failed to materialise as France sublimed to a tyrranic period of terror with no real democracy before it. However, Plato now describes the Democracy that has been implemented by the lower classes with the aim of leading onto the democratic character. With new freedom and liberty, the average individual will arrange his life as pleases ... that any mind should be made up of three hierarchical levels: the desires and emotions being the lowest tier; the character, as decided by upbringing occupies the intermediate tier; and reason ...

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... to agreeing with everything Socrates says in fragments of sentences for the next couple of pages. Plato and Socrates see their position in Athenian democracy as a educator too as much of the society as possible; by walking around and talking to citizens of Athens about the true philosophies on life in hopes ... that they might benefit and do good because of what they have learned. True philosophers allow society to examine their thoughts and question what they take for granted. What both Socrates and Plato fail ... to realize is that if the navigator does not speak up and tell the crew ...

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is Book VII in his much larger work, The Republic. The Allegory of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us ... is an extended metaphor full of symbolism. All of the objects in the story mean something, and can be applied to the world we live in. Socrates starts his story by describing an image which is pointedly "strange", according to Glaucon. He tells about prisoners who have been chained since childhood in a cave. The prisoners have always faced one wall ... are humans, like you and me. Their chains represent the restraints...

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is Book VII in his much larger work, The Republic. The Allegory of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us ... is an extended metaphor full of symbolism. All of the objects in the story mean something, and can be applied to the world we live in. Socrates starts his story by describing an image which is pointedly "strange", according to Glaucon. He tells about prisoners who have been chained since childhood in a cave. The prisoners have always faced one wall ... are humans, like you and me. Their chains represent the restraint...

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... since it is only a function that I am satisfying as a student. Chance plays a part of my ever day life however, happiness does not come by this chance. When chance is taken there can be a change of situations and therefore if change occurs then there is no absolute truth and if there is ... and without good happiness can not be achieved. An example of this chance is, when I believe that by taking a chance with the handsome man and forming a relationship will I be happy, since society will find him fit. According to Plato society "cannot make a man either wise or foolish: they act wholly ...

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... addicts and have an easy life when in reality our life is no easier than it was 20 years ago, in fact maybe even worse. The media adds to this by generating ideas and notions to suggest we are self-indulgent and take no responsibility in our actions. One would think that in this era, teenagers have more responsibility than ever ... ...

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... , when Mills discusses the first fruit of the sociological imagination it is the is the idea that one can only understand one's own experience and realize his/her own fate by identifying himself/herself within that period, so that one would know the chances in life based on those who are in the same circumstances. Mills explains that one has to ... that effect culture. Those who have less power and less influence are able to adapt to change culturally. The Symbolic interactionism perspective is the assumption that the role of individuals by means of social behavior is what creates societ...

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... begins with the author describing a serene, almost heavenly hotel that a small number of elite people stay in the summer. The author draws a fine line between the rich and the poor by portraying Madame Beaumont and Farrington as these wealthy, prosperous people, but in actuality are poor themselves. The society in the story gives power to the affluent and renders the poor ... societal hierarchies and the poor people are a nuisance to them, who will ruin the hotel if they ever discover it. Madame Beaumont and Ferrington even describe this in their act by saying "We can not escape noise a...

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... of the main points of the poem. The theme is live life to its fullest and seize the day. The narrator is trying to lure a woman into sleeping with him by using time as an excuse, much like today's times.. He (the narrator) talks about this woman's beauty and how he will love her forever but forever may be tomorrow. This ... ...

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In the essay "I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady, the author utilizes the art of rhetoric to convince the audience that 1970's wives have what she would consider a "difficult" life. Brady writes in a sarcastic tone ... chores a wife that is obligated to perform while life goes on forcing her to the sidelines of the society. Such a heavy burden is elicited in the essay to be performed by a person who should be "better half". Brady consistently narrates the expectations she has from the wife she would like to have such as "working to support the ... 's needs, and keep appointments for children with ...

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In the novel "The Dead," by James Joyce, Gabriel Conroy is Joyce in character form. James Joyce was an outcast to society and in this novel it is understood that he is because of the way ... angry and he tried to get rid of all signs of his anger before he was to meet up with his aunts and wife. "Which he tried to dispel by arranging his cuffs and the bows of his tie. Then he took from his waistcoat pocket a little paper and glanced at the headings" Gabriel shows that he will not ... and that is why he tried to hide his true feelings behind a thick wall. He knew that he had to act the right...

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