... Plato developed from certain seldom-stated assumptions that Socrates held. Socrates' view was that the reason he and his interlocutors failed to find definitions for things was that they were stuck in case-based, specific examples. Does bravery mean fighting against a person stronger than yourself, or does it ... two. Socrates had, by far, more influence than any other philosopher on the young Plato's intellectual development. It is a measure of the reverence that Plato felt for his former teacher that he kept Socrates central in all of his work, even after his philosophy had extended fa...

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... contemporary argument that is clearly influenced by Plato yet inline with current scientific findings. Plato considered that there must be a measure of goodness in order to identify God as benevolent and maintained there to be standard of 'goodness' that is independent of God. ... goodness, truth, and nobility, which he identified as God. "For example a thing that is said to be 'hotter' is accordant with its resemblance of that which is 'hottest'"15; the independent measure that Plato inquired there should be, in this case, is temperature. To ... as the implications are c...

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... in the divine is a superstition; a religion that has no influence upon conduct is a contradiction in terms; a religion that substitutes external ceremonial acts for the higher life is an empty formalism. Of the three elements involved in religion, belief, ritual and reverence, the first presents a double aspect, failure ... way a person lives from day to day by giving that person hope, belief, and reason to exist in this world. To a very extreme measure it can be maybe argued that only rarely that religion can be a persons assets, family, or other individuals or possessions, it can be ma...

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