... include justice, self-control, and holiness. "...is there such a thing as justice... I think so... virtue resembles knowledge or justice..."( Plato's The Protagoras pp 55). Since virtue, knowledge, justice, and courage resemble holiness and vice versa, as with holiness, virtue, knowledge, and justice must exist outside the human condition. "... (to) be a good man - which is what you were speaking of, ... is infact metaphysically dead, though biologically alive. The biological preservation of Antonio is only analogous to connecting a cadaver to a respirator and giving it a pulse. The assu...

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... to try get at true answers to definite questions. Socrates was not a skeptic, either. He frequently claimed not to know anything about the subjects of his conversations (piety, virtue, beauty, courage, etc.). To some extent, Socrates is adopting a pose in order to get the dialectic rolling -- to prompt his interlocutor to propose a definition of virtue, piety, etc. But on the other ... ideas and be able to talk about these ideas. That would be the connection between truth and dialectic. 3. The Platonic writing, the Crito, explores the issue of whether individuals have a moral obligation...

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... suffering can be reunited with freedom and so it could be chosen. The suffering or (passio) he says cannot be sheer passivity alone but it should come into contact with courage and resistance (both Mod and Modstand quite respectively) so as to confront the disease of acting in avoidable suffering His understanding however, was that how can a person survive the debilitating ... to endure the suffering, one should be still committed to the good . By this, it could only propose that in so doing, the person is always in charge of his moral obligations and what he chooses should be based on ...

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... , for which reason the wiser ones know what is best for the city and become the rulers. The ruler must have four virtues which are essential for a good governor: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. In order to arrive at these virtues Plato uses the method of dialectic, the asking and answering of questions which lead from one point to another, with ... in the body, all contribute to the whole, but the eyes only see, the ears only year, and they do not share functions. Using this analogy, justice is like the moral mind which guides the body in its activities; it's at the head, at th...

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