... directing it to the right objects. The problem of education, then, is to give it the right surrounding." -(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. He himself calls it as "the one great thing". Birth as a criterion for distributing function has been ... the acquiring of basic facts & ideas in one's childhood & adolescence, & was the ist to propose an elaborate system & education. He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. Educa...

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... Outline of the Politics Questions in Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17-24 Book I: types of communities: the city, the household; household management Book II: critical survey of proposed and actual constitutions: Plato (Republic, Laws), Hippodamus, Sparta, Crete, Carthage, various legislators "First, then, let us try to review any sound remarks our predecessors have made on particular topics." Book III.1-13: ... city and citizen: definitions, good man vs. good citizen, classification of constitutions, conceptions of political justice Books III.14- IV: types of constitutions: kingship, arist...

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... : observing as many examples as possible and then, based on these observations, working out a basic principle they have in common. Inductive reasoning is the basis of the western scientific method. Plato saw reality in ideas that could only be known by thinking and reasoning about them. Aristotle saw reality in physical objects that could best be known by experiencing them. He ... of life, their actions, or by their parts. His observations on many marine invertebrates are extremely accurate and could only have been made from first hand experiences with dissection. His books are filled wi...

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... being in a deliberately constructed environment. Therefore, through this structured environment, a philosophical question can be addressed which is how do people perceive reality and how can Truman's reality be compared to Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The Truman Show begins with the star, Truman Burbank, a mild-mannered insurance salesman that has lived his entire life in a false reality. From the day he ... , was Truman's reality any less valid because it was created by one man's vision for a television show? The Truman Show can be best based from Plato's most famous dialogue, The Repu...

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