... is strong about not allowing those who are guardians maintain private property. He says, "Moreover, it is just to say here too, as I said there, that if the guardian attempts to become happy in such a way that he is no longer a guardian, and such a moderate, steady, and best life won't satisfy him; but, ... smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can't stand it? And they end up, as you well know, by paying no attention to the laws, written or unwritten, in order that they may avoid having any master at all" (Plato, 242). People will begin to take this freedom to ... village...

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... about what happens beyond death. Hinduism and Buddhism is based on a cyclic view of existence. Hinduism teaches the belief in reincarnation. This is the belief that when you die your soul (atman) still remains and comes back in another body. For Buddhists, the supreme aim is to obtain enlightenment or nirvana. However before this happens buddhists undergo and constant cycle of death and rebirth ... . The wheel of life known as the Bhavacakra, is a representation of the different states a person can be reborn into. For both Hindus and Buddhists, your next life ... when you are reborn dep...

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... of the forms, where he would be eternally. Socrates believed so strongly in this, that not only did he not fear his death, he welcomed it. He believed that only when the soul separated from the body, is a person able to be truly enlightened and gain all knowledge. This enlightenment has been ... Socrates" life long goal of discovering the truth. Even at his hour of death, Socrates showed no hesitation. However, ... Socrates" friends did not believe so strongly, and took some great convincing by Socrates, to allow his friends to be okay with his death. The two proofs ... hot and cold ar...

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... you fulfilled your dharma and did not reach Nirvana until your moral duty was fulfilled. While speaking along the lines of Nirvana, comes the theme of afterlife. According to the Hindus, when people die, their souls are reborn in new bodies, a process called reincarnation. People ... to as karma. If you fulfilled your dharma you were rewarded with good karma and also reached enlightenment. Once you reached enlightenment, you reached the concept of Moksha, which is the freeing from reincarnation. But what happens to man once he reaches moksha? Once man reached moksha, ... he was sent to N...

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... "The Good." The prisoner eventually reasons that the sun is the cause for night and day, the seasons, and the years. He starts to reason that the sun is what makes the stars and the moon shine so bright at night. It governs what he sees and reasons that somehow, someway it is the cause of the shadows he used to see in the cave. After going through this enlightenment he ... looks back to the cave and ... gets a feeling of joy that he was released even though the start of the transition was very rough. He can also see how this form of "Normal ... ...

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... by an action that one is willing to admit to wrongdoings and have guilt because of it. Prometheus and Socrates both believed that regardless of the consequences they had to pay, they should not be shameful for their actions because they truly believed in what they did and that it was ... to this, Socrates said, " And yet I know rather well that I incur hatred by these very things; which is also a proof that I speak the truth, and what this is the slander against me, and that these are its causes." (PA, p.73, ln. 24a) From this, it is very clear that Socrates not only ... while all the...

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... we see them. Both Plato and Descartes were rationalists. They employ logical reasoning and rational connections to arrive at what they conclude is the truth. Descartes describes his approach as "open and tentative". This methodological scepticism, as it is phrased in philosophical terminology, can give ... the Den", Plato concludes that Absolute truth does exist; stressing that one should strive in their lives to ascertain it. According to Plato, perception is a veil over our eyes. What we perceive as true is not always reality, and we hide in illusions because we don't want to let go. Pl...

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... Descartes was trying to recognize what foundational knowledge he had were indubitable but realized that he had close to none. Consequently, he came to the conclusion that anything that had a probable doubt may not necessarily be completely false but it is also not absolutely certain. Hallucinations and illusions prove ... Descartes believed that such a being as perfect as God cannot be created by just our imagination. You cannot create something out of nothing. Thus the only reason why we are able to envision a perfect being is because there actually is a perfect being in which we call ...

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... about people's perception when they learn about God and the nature around them. Furthermore, Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" gives us understanding about human's progress and their responsibility to share and convey the enlightenment to those who are still in the darkness. Human experience is the intersections and collisions between individual "universes" and with the nature. These collisions lead to human progress which ... not only accumulate new experience, but sometimes also change people's perception about the life. Human's wondering about the life and nature is clearly depicted in ...

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... of ancient Greece, an era of thought and enlightenment emerged some of the greatest thinkers of all time, such as Socrates and Plato. Over the years, many questions have been raised by these men or posed by them. In Plato's "The Republic", Book I the fundamental question hey focus on is, "What is Justice?" Plato says that the just man does what is good and right to ... I, Socrates argues with Simondes before turning his efforts to Polemarchus. Throughout this book, Plato describes how Socrates disputes everyone's idea provong more and more what justice truly is. Through discussing the i...

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... influence on how people view their existence, and these ideas continue to influence people today. Plato's ideas have had a big influence over the belief that the human is divided into separate parts. Plato suggested that what makes humans different from other creatures and things is that humans have a soul ... modern thought is immense. In modern North American culture, people seem to define themselves by control. Similar to Plato and Augustine, people believe "the body is the locus of all that threatens our attempts at control" (Bordo, p. 145). People believe they become a better perso...

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... guided out of the dark and into the light. "And first they will see the shadows best, next the reflection of men .." (Jacobus, 317) What this paragraph does in effect is slowly take the prisoner from the lowly bowels of the cave to the luminous grounds of the sun. The prisoner first sees the shadows, then the reflections of men, and then the actual images. Plato knows not to rush the enlightenment of the former prisoners ... so he exposes them to the dim lighting of the moon before enticing them to the blazing sun. The dim moon light serves as a transition and ... ...

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... incessantly but still found no answer, until one day he found himself under the Bo-tree, or the Tree of Enlightenment. He meditated and did not stir until he found the answer to overcoming suffering. After this he was known as Buddha. In the philosophical Buddhist practice, suffering is considered to be the main worldly problem and it is what life is characterized by. In Buddhism ... , suffering is inevitable just as death is inevitable. The body is a main source of ... inappropriate and that holes inside cannot be filled with material "stuff". 3) The Nobel Truth of the Cessation of Suf...

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... and there has yet to be one who understands it's powers fully. As we see from Plato's Symposium, even the wisest of men in a time when the search for knowledge was seen as the pathway to enlightenment love was still a concept that was not understood and unknown. Though many of the guidelines and characteristics of love are wise, some may not apply to modern society ... . The writing serves as a pamphlet that depicts some of the guidelines of love as the philosophers of Plato's time saw them. The intervention of the God's in the orations of the philosophers can be ... interpreted to mean...

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... the masses in order to keep them under their rule and from gaining further knowledge or truths. I absolutely agree with Plato on this point, that we should look beyond that which is put before us and seek further knowledge. This brings me to the major discussion of my paper; I interpret Plato's theory as a process of education, it's a journey to enlightenment. Plato said that the ... goal of the philosopher is to know the perfect forms and to instruct others in that knowledge. If one has a look at how ... the divided line is structured, the lower half is the visible realm which is infl...

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