... Protagoras and Descartes. Protagoras thought that you could make anyone believe what you wanted him or her to believe. "Protagoras is known primarily for three claims: that man is the measure of all things, that he could make the 'worse (or weaker) argument appear the better (or stronger),' and that one could ... gods existed or not." (Poster 1) These are all ways of comprehending that Protagoras was a philosophical skeptic. Specifically, by pointing out that man is the measure of all things, he is expressing that man is no specific thing, therefore opening man to the possibility of ...

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... seek honor purely for its own sake, we also seek it as a measure of our worth. But happiness is sought for its own sake. Aristotle sees wealth as merely useful, it is not sought for itself but for what it can be used to achieve. Wealth is a mean for something else, a ... an emotion or desire is said to be the mean between the extremes of excess and deficiency. Thus, for every feeling you have, you can be virtuous (if your character is such that you feel it in the appropriate way), or you can exhibit the vice of excess ... Surliness Friendly Civility Obsequiousness Ironical Depreciation...

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... requiring high skills, may be assessed as harmful. That's why, an important task of government is to determine, what should be a person's work. For centuries, Plato's concept of ideal' state has been many times criticized for abstractness, utopian character and totalitarianism. Plato himself realized that idea/ ideal of any object could never match its real embodiment. However, he thought definition of a problem about ... Publica- contains. In Aristotle's view the function of ethics is to unite different aims of human behavior: to define what is Good, and what conditions for its realiza...

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... Their souls. Socrates wanted people to worry about their connection to God as Socrates heavily believed in monotheism. Socrates was famous for the Socratic method which is a form of inquiry and debate between individuals with opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions ... for everything. Plato's main doctrine is that the world that appears to our senses is in some way defective and filled with error, but there is a more real and perfect realm, populated by entities called "forms" or "ideas" that are eternal, changeless, and in some sense indicative of the structure and ...

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