Should We Have the Decision? In society, many laws are established to protect the members of the community. When do these laws begin to cross the line with the intention of protecting us from ourselves? Do people of adult age need a law to guide them, or can adults be trusted to protect themselves? An example of this ... . The use of seatbelts has greatly increased from before there was a law. Individuals take into consideration that it is a law and they can be fined for not wearing one. This reasoning does save lives even if that is the only reason they wear the seatbelt. The enforcement of ...

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... . He proceeds to suggest women's opinions as illogical by comparing them to, "that fool Demostratos", a sophist. During this period the sophists were disliked and were believed to have highly flawed reasoning because they were not as interested in what was right as winning the argument. He is saying that what the women protesting the war is nonsense however he is contradicting ... women are expressing their view of how hasty the men were being by calling them ideal. Aristophanes is identifying to the reader how upset the women are for the male reasoning during the war. The Commissioner c...

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... to social standards, or pursue his or her convinced conscience? Each of these situations surface in the works of two ancient Greek writers. In Plato's Apology and Crito, through critical reasoning, Socrates acknowledges the word of the law. In contrast, Sophocles" play Antigone makes the point that justice should be put ahead of the law, otherwise more problems can surface instead ... , and his wife Eurydice. Which obligations take priority: social or ethical? Sophocles, through Antigone, focuses on moral and ethical decisions. The gods are the more important authority. Moral and ethical...

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... 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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... when that is what they desire) it seems to follow logically that these two moments suggest that one soul is composed of at least two parts because, according to the reasoning Socrates employs one thing cannot have opposing interest in itself in relation to the same thing. "Spirit" is in the sense of a "spirited" horse. Plato thinks that this is the ... energy that drives the soul and may be used to reason to keep desire in line. Temperance, or moderation, will mean the limitation of desires. This is the part of the soul that is far from being appetitive, for in the civil war in the soul...

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