... their confessions. Dante makes the point through the confessions that sinners elect their Hell by an act of their own will. (Dante's Inferno pg. 62 notes #4" Cerberus - Circle III - Gluttons - The three headed dog of hell that rips and tears those in the circle with its claws and teeth. ... placed at the gate of the underworld to allow all to enter and none to escape. His ravenous disposition makes him an apt symbol for gluttony. (Dante's Inferno, notes on pg. 69. #13, 14) Plutus - Circle IV - Hoarders and Wasters - overseer of prodigal (wasters) and miserly (hoarders). In Greek mytholo...

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... to anarchy. In Plato's perfect society, he forged ahead to eliminate the disease (pluralism of friendship) that plagued the human character and society (Class Notes). Essentially, Plato wanted to establish the perfect form of society, linked by one single entity. Aristotle, unlike Plato, was not focused or concerned about ... continued economic viability of the society. Plato whole-heartedly felt that if ever the bronze or iron people rule the state would collapse (Class Notes). He sought to establish the concept of the gold class having wisdom, thus they should be wise and good rulers. ...

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... through all this battle to be different they are all becoming more and more alike. This group of lemmings may soon find themselves following each other over the cliff of college drop outs. I thought that college would be challenging. While chained in my cave, those who had already seen the sunshine told me that college was completely different from ... ...

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... . The cinematography of the film helps illuminate the idea of dysfunction. For example, canted angles are used in Rebel Without a Cause during family arguments. When James comes home from the cliff, after the accident, the Starks get into a fight. When the mom goes up the stairs the camera angle becomes canted. This can be interpreted as the mixed emotion household he ... ...

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... it was fate that made events occur. "Willing cooperation with the "Divine Will" is the only sensible course of action and the essence of Stoic virtues." as stated in the notes for Hellenistic philosophy. The "Divine Will" may be God and it may be Zeus, but what is clear is that they believed that the most logical path to take was ... the one in which you cooperated with the Gods (or God). Plus it was, as the notes say, "Stoic virtues". There was also a huge leap in mathematics, astronomy, and medicine because of philosophy, unlike Hellenic philosophy which suffered in these things due t...

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... dialogues. Apart from a few fragments almost all of these dialogues have been lost in time. Still extant, however, are his lecture notes for carefully outlined courses having to do with almost every branch of knowledge and art. Texts based on these notes on logic were called Organon ("instrument"). For Aristotle, psychology was a study of the soul. He defined a soul as a "kind of ... ...

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... different laws and rules they established when the group was gathered together. Honor and trust were key factors in the government. "Just as long as they kept alive the noble spark of divinity they inherited from Poseidon, the kings of Atlantis were faithful to his laws and honored him" (Braymer 23). The Atlanteans knew they were advanced for their time, so ... ...

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... 107). Plato thinks that in a utopia a disgruntled group of Guardians will emerge and break from the rules (Hacker 63). He thinks that in an oligarchy two things may happen to spark a revolution: the first being the ruler and their offspring grow to be weak rulers and too sympathetic, the second is that the number of poor grows larger and suffer exploitation ... ...

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... to anticipate them. Plato thinks that in a Utopia a displeased group of Guardians will emerge and break from the rules. He thinks that in an oligarchy two things may happen to spark a revolution: the first being the ruler and their offspring grow to be weak rulers and too sympathetic, the second is that the number of poor grows larger and suffer exploitation ... ...

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... being self-sufficient and that man would be most happy in a State. Plato's ideal State made his political view easily understandable and more rational than Socrates who left behind no notes and Aristotle who did not create a blueprint for an ideal State....

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... in varying situations (1). God is the ultimate final cause. Aristotle wrote a work entitled, On the Heavens where he portrayed his studies on God and heaven. Starting with ordinary observation, Aristotle notes that things move, and that the source of their movement is some other moving thing (Kraut 1). If what readily causes x to move is always some other thing y, then there can ... ...

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... to recognize when they are falling into the natural tendency of making a cognitive error and therefore not seeing the true reality of the situation. In order to make these mental notes one must first fully understand when they are apt to make these errors. Thomas Gilovich attempts to aid humans in their detection of these errors by revealing that humans tend ... ...

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... . 2003 (2) "Athenian Democracy." http://kengarman.tripod.com/atheniandemocracy/ (3) Plato. Republic. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, New York. 1993. (4) Patten, Alan, Associate Professor, D. Phil. Intro to Political Theory. Lecture Notes, Fall 2003 ...

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... these important figures in philosophical history is that their passion for independent thought, which is alive and well in every text you read. Plato's version of Socrates and Artistotle's lecture notes both feverishly seek out new interpretations and theories of the world surrounding us and the world within us, and produce ideas whose ultimate result is the inspiration of thousands upon ... ...

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... both around 500,000 - 800,000, of which 120,000 were employed in the military, which possessed 120 ships (Civilization). However, these are not the exact figures. While translating the notes of Solon, Plato made an error. He interpreted the Greek symbol for 100, as the symbol for 1000, thus throwing every statistic off by a factor of ten. Despite the resulting ... ...

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... its unthinking work ethic and his philosophy that it was possible to redefine, through his time at Walden Pond, what the true "necessaries" of life really are (Walden 111). Thoreau notes that the real necessities of life, which are essential to people anywhere, can be answered with only a few items: food, shelter, clothing and fuel. He then contrasts such "necessities" with ... ...

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