... pleasing. Poetry with its rhyme and metre is supposed to delight our senses. Would it be fair to judge philosophy according to its aesthetic beauty? Could one ever say that a line from Plato's books sounds as pleasing as one from Homer's Iliad? Banksy once said about art: "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." [2] If an artist ... inward significance." [4] Art exhibits facets of reality which we didn't consider and broadens our perspective. Plato gauges poetry from the perspective of all that he holds dear: logic and reasoning. In this endeavour he overlooks the...

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... of the stronger is the most convincing that Socrates encounters. Socrates does not have a strong defense to this argument. Thrasymachus is a precursor for later political theorists. Machiavelli adopts this line of reasoning by claiming that justice is relative. This argument is also a basis for Marx's concept of class structure. The dialogue then shifts to Glaucon and Adeimanius who claim that justice can ... ...

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