... of life. There are several philosophers whom I had similar views to: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Karl Marx, Abraham Maslow, and to a lesser extent Plato. What all these philosophers have in common is that they believe in an intellectual and spiritual development of the human being that is completely detached from the ... desires, the spiritual or emotional, and the rational part concerned with obtaining wisdom. The highest and best of these three parts is the rational part. Plato then creates a parallel between the soul and the State. The appetitive side represents the workers, the spirited, ...

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... "literature influences or 'shapes' society literature functions socially to maintain and stabilize" (425). For my theory on the relationship between literature and society, I am using Plato, Wordsworth, Marx, Bakhtin, Fitzgerald, Mitchell, and Althusser. I believe that literature and society cannot function without each other and that literature is a direct reflection of what is happening in ... exist now because the socially educated people are supposed to create the republic. Not everyone is today's time period is socially educated, therefore the republic would fail. During Plato'...

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... public needs is then vested in the state (Daniels, 177). Communism is a the concept of and ideal society, a utopia if you will. This is derived from ancient sources such as Plato's "Republic"" and to the surprise of many; early Christian communes. Early in the 19th century the idea of communism came as a result of the contempt harbored by the poor and ... . People were there by will and voluntarily cooperated with one another. Everyone in these settlements participated in the governing process (Daniels, 183). The term communisms was later reserved for the philosophy of Karl Marx and Frie...

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... by a revolutionary movement; responsibility for meeting public needs is then vested in the state (Daniels 177). As a concept of an ideal society, communism is derived from ancient sources, including Plato's Republic and the earliest Christian communes. In the early 19th century, the idea of a communist society was a response of the poor and the dislocated to the beginnings of modern capitalism ... , however, eventually failed. Most of these small-scale private experiments involved voluntary cooperation, with everyone participating in the governing process (Daniels). Later the term commun...

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... by a revolutionary movement; responsibility for meeting public needs is then vested in the state (Daniels 177). As a concept of an ideal society, communism is derived from ancient sources, including Plato's Republic and the earliest Christian communes. In the early 19th century, the idea of a communist society was a response of the poor and the dislocated to the beginnings of modern capitalism ... , however, eventually failed. Most of these small-scale private experiments involved voluntary cooperation, with everyone participating in the governing process (Daniels). Later the term commun...

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