... is just a process of recollection, of remembering what we have forgotten. He says that we learned everything in an earlier life, before we became people. So, we already have all of our knowledge. He demonstrates this theory by asking the slave boy various geometry questions which the slave boy answers ... Plato's view on already having knowledge, of just having to "awaken" it. From The Republic, his theory of knowledge is put in an analogy with people who lived in caves for most of their lives and then came out into the real "outside world" which had a totally different reality than wha...

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... cannot be part of everyday life, because it is always changing and imperfect. So because of their stability and perfection, the forms have greater reality than ordinary objects observed in the physical world. The forms meet Plato's criteria of knowledge, they are certain, unquestionable and are infallible. Thus, true knowledge is the ... of the forms by leaving the cave and going into the sunlight. In the back of the cave, where it is dark, the masses of people, the majority of the city are facing the back wall. They are shackled down with chains so that they can not move or look backwa...

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... is a need for the best men to have intercourse as often as possible with the best women, and the reverse for the most ordinary men with the most ordinary women; and the offspring of the former must be reared buy not that of the others, if the flock is going to be ... of the most eminent quality. And all this must come to pass without being noticed by anyone except the rulers themselves if the guardians" herd is to be as free as possible from fraction."(Plato, 138). The people ... Then the city follows a certain order becoming more and more unjust. The one that Socrates calls timocracy is...

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... I began to try to show him that he only thought he was wise and was not really so, my efforts were resented both by him and many of the other people present", (Apology, 21d, 43) says the philosopher very haughtily. While on trial, Socrates possesses no inhibitions about making his wishes known to the jury. Until the moment in which he ... the human bodily needs and desires (2nd Apology). As he is about to transcend into the next world, Socrates bids his earthly companions farewell. As if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred, he casually says, "Well, now it is time to be off, I to di...

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... the existence of plurality and change, conceiving of reality as a static one, and they denied that reality could be described in terms of the categories of ordinary experience. Heracleitus and his pupil Cratylus thought that the world was in such a state of flux that no permanent, unchangeable truth about it could be found ... now you will find out that you are more ignorant than they are." (Socrates in Plato 6) Here we see that he genuinely believes that people in their specific areas of expertise will be wiser than he himself is. He wants to prove his doubt in knowledge. "That showed me...

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... their natural function in society. This is interpretation of justice serves as a basis for Plato's ideal state. His notion of justice is that if people perform their natural function, then their society will be just as a whole. Individual justice is interrelated with societal justice. #5. Moira - Ancient Greek ... of which we can apprehend the reality of everything that has value. Justice as interpreted by Plato was described in the allegory of metals. People are born with a natural function. It is the expectation that they will perform the function. Therefore justice is the performance ...

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... always want to reach for the top. When we see kids today, they are always striving to become the best and do something out of the ordinary, something that may be out of their class but if determined they can accomplish any feat. I know from my own experience that no one wants ... of groups. The leaders were those of the royal class. The kings were thought of to be knowledgeable and was a trait only certain people have, there were also people who entered the armies or were placed into them. The armies were the guardians of England, protecting their empire and constantly looking for new la...

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... just that acts as a mirror of individual. Generally, Aristotle's views over ethics and justice reflect the dominating views of well-educated and experienced people of his time. Unlike Plato's view, they are neither filled with mystical religiosity, nor support those unorthodox theories of family and property "Res ... immediate vital needs. The second form is settlement, which unifies several families, while the third form is State, defined by Aristotle as "association of people, who are similar to one another, with a view to a possible better existence-. Such an association requires leisu...

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... that he wishes to teach Athenian people. Through the conversations with people in different fields who has the reputation of outstanding wisdom, he observes that the people with high power and wealth tends to regard themselves as wiser people who know much more than ordinary people. However, Socrates finds this is ... not the truth. The truth is "those who [have] the highest reputation [are] nearly the most deficient, while those who [are] thought to be inferior [are] more knowledgeable" (Apology, 22:a). Socrates wants to let more people ... trying to question and challenge the idea of G...

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