... out of control and this is what we get. The Commissioner carries no hope in the last line of his passage. In the end of Lysistrata the Athenians and Spartans agree to end the war in defeat. The women have gotten what they wanted. Aristophanes" Lysistrata shows how sometimes women can win the war of the sexes, even in a time period ... in which women were not even viewed as citizens. The Commissioners opening passage to scene 1 gave a quick overview to the play and the views of the men and women during the battle of the sexes. Aristophanes even in a short passage shows the social relevan...

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... other and logically, I believe, one can almost not make sense without the other. I was assigned to choose one of the two whose beliefs I agree with more for this essay. Personally, as I mentioned already, I think neither is completely valid and I also believe that without Plato's views coming into ... Aristotle's views are quite passé. I was also assigned to write this essay using examples of personal experience. Although regardless I do ultimately agree with the ideas of Aristotle over those of Plato, I also feel that ultimate agreement with Plato in this essay would be somewhat illogic...

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... are best, and what the "ideal city" is. He criticizes many forms of government, such as kingship, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, and democracy. He doesn't really agree with Plato's ideas on government, but they both do agree on the fact that they don't like democracy. This is surprising to me as an American because we hold democracy in such high esteem. As I continued ... neither works by itself because oligarchy angers the poor and pure democracy is to week and the nation suffers. I agree that the problem of oligarchy is that it is rule by a few to further the interest of the wealthy...

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... same time, he thought it could be found in many forms. Still any form of it would be considered to have a common thread, which is the ultimate truth. Aristotle would agree with Plato that there is one truth. He assesses that truth is contained in nature. Nature, being what is, as it exists in its purest form, must be truth because ... beliefs in society, the truth would be dependent on the themes of that era and would not be timeless and always attainable. While they wouldn"t agree that the median of society always holds the truth they would agree with Aristotle's thoughts on restrainin...

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... would see that Socrates makes three arguments which leads to a conclusion. Firstly, he says that no one can be sure that death would not be the greatest blessing to a man. I agree with this statement as it is a fact. It is impossible for any living man to know what comes after death, and it is impossible to communicate or ask the dead ... us that Socrates' argument was in fact his personal opinion. If Socrates had said that it is simply ignorant to think that one knows what one does not know, I would agree with his statement. However, as he used the word 'most', this renders his argumen...

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... , the just person who was not given any reputation was stripped of honors which were given to the unjust person making the unjust happier than the just. However, I do not agree with Glaucon's position about justice even if his intent was to make Socrates give his true meaning of justice. He states that "the best is to do injustice without ... paying penalty and the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revengeJustice is a mean between these two extremes". 7 I slightly disagree agree with his argument because I feel that a truly unjust person would know how to not pay a penalty...

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... used under certain circumstances. These conditions must be met by the people as a whole in order to benefit the state with whatever action done. Mill, and his theory of utilitarianism agree with both rehabilitation and deterrence. Utilitarianism agrees with rehabilitation because it is like deterrence, it prevents the action to happen again. Utilitarianism is about the general pleasures of all. Because ... of this, utilitarianism believes in rehabilitation because it can further benefit the whole through teaching the culprit not to do those wrong actions again. Mill and utilitarianism a...

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... to those people who are mentally incapacitated and those everyday mistakes. He knew that people were not all perfect and everybody makes mistakes every now and then. Confucius probably would agree with this. Remember that he was trying to stabilize China. He wanted people in certain positions to know what they had to do and he didn't want any problems with ... to another shouldn't be made if you can't keep them. He wanted people to be honest and not to be hypocrites. I would have to say that Confucius would have to agree with this. He wanted the people who he assigned as his officials t...

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... , it is not, it is an image of a pipe. One's definition of reality depends completely on which unifying concept and which philosophy he or she agrees with. An idealist would agree with Plato's rationale that the intelligible realm is real whereas the physical realm is not because it is not permanent. A materialist would ... agree with Heracleitus' view that the physical realm is more real. If you most agree with Plato's definition, then the concept of reality itself is not real at all. This concept has changed and continues to change. It is in an ... ...

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... you can see but it is actually not there like reflections or echoes. In book VII, Myth of the Cave, is the perfect example of the four levels of knowledge. I agree that there are levels of knowledge; however, I disagree with the fact that in the first level of the visible world, reason he thinks that the good, the true, the beautiful ... . The virtue of moderation corresponds appetitive and ignorant part of the soul. Plato believed that when each part of the soul does its exact job, then justice would be found. I agree with Plato's philosophy to a certain extent because I believe he is g...

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... : these are the things which you call neither good nor evil?" (263). That says if you run, it makes walking bad or if you stand it makes sitting bad. I somewhat agree with Plato because I think you can classify what would be called good and what would be called evil, but there are different standards for what people would call good and ... . And so far every good deed follows an evil one. Plato was a greatly known Philosopher in his day. Plato says a lot on good and evil. Which makes it hard to agree or disagree with what he says. In Robert Mayhard, Ed. Volume Page (262-263) his says, "Ca...

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... the same. What is more, if I dip both of my hands into a bowl of lukewarm water after chilling one and warming the other, the water will feel both warm and cold at the same time. Clearly, then, heat as I perceive it is nothing other than an idea in my mind. Similar arguments and experiments establish that other sensible qualities "colors ... that vary with changes in ambient light, tastes and smells that change perceptibly when I have a cold, and sounds that depend for their quality on the position of my ears and conditions in the air are, like heat, nothing but ideas in my mind. But th...

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... always necessarily reflect a virtuous agent. What does Aristotle mean by virtue? How can it be attained? Explain in detail what this statement is exactly suggesting. To what extent do you agree what Aristotle is saying? Humans and animals live and share the same planet and share common features even though they are different species. However there is a characteristic that sets humans ... clearly right when he mentions the happy balance in virtues. I think he gives a very practical explanation considering that he makes it clear that each virtue is relative to the person. I agree with Ari...

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... , and education that he could provide by staying alive and doing what is within his power for their fortune. (Plato: Cerrito 54) In regards to Critos reasoning, Socrates does not agree with him and sets forth his reasons for holding that one is bound to enact to the punishment imposed on him, even though the punishment may be a very unjust one ... public by being accused of a natural philosopher and not believing in Athenian Gods, corrupting the youth. One must understand that there are two classifications of crime. Those crimes that we agree not to commit because doing so will harm othe...

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... claiming that there was no such thing as actual change. He was a rationalist and rejected reality. Parmenides declared that our senses give us a picture of the world that does not agree with our reason. Heraclitus, on the other hand, was a contemporary of Parmenides. He thought that everything was in constant flux and movement. The constant flow was the most basic characteristic ... two different forces at work in nature. He called these forces love and strife. Love binds things together and strife separates them. Anaxagoras, who was also from Greece, could not agree on a particular sub...

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... that what you are doing now, namely, prosecuting your father for murder, is a pious act."" (6D). Socrates explains that he is looking for the natural universal definition that everyone can agree upon and not several instances/examples of pious acts. Euthyphro's second attempt to explain piety: "What is dear to the gods is pious, and what is not is impious."" (7A ... has admitted that the gods love the pious and hate the impious in chorus with disagreeing between themselves. This permits them to love and hate what is pious, and simultaneously agree and disagree on the same things. The go...

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... they are the producers of the all the goods in the society yet they have no stake in their ruling. Although Aristotle thinks that Plato is too idealistic, the two agree on some things. They both believe that if humans were to their own devices they would be destructive. They also both feel that individualism is not beneficial. A community lead by ... city. In his book, The Politics, Aristotle recognizes some of these weaknesses and suggests a better regime. Although Plato and Aristotle arrive at different outcomes for the best political system, they agree on the nature of humans and the...

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... are done by choice according to both philosophers. Augustine says, "Sin is so much a voluntary evil that it is not sin at all unless it is voluntary." I believe Aristotle would agree with him on that as well. They think If wrongdoings occur by choice, then there should be consequences. Augustine also says, "Every rational soul is made unhappy by its sins ... or happy by its well-doing. Aristotle would most likely agree with this as well. However he would say that it takes much more than well doing to make a person happy. As you can most likely already tell, the mean, according ... ...

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... in the education of citizens. This passage refers to a measure of control recommended to fight that disorder. The goal of the educational system is to produce "serious citizens" who understand, agree with and maintain the social order put forth by Plato. This passage is a part of the Republic dealing with the unity of the Guardian class. The details of the Guardian ... history without enough success to stop the rise and fall of countless societies. When the ills of a society rear their head, education is often assigned responsibility. Our society would generally agree with Plato that ed...

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... not necessary have to be the right one. Similarly, if a family has a choice between supporting its child or supporting the child down the street who is very smart, Mill will agree with supporting the child down the street because he believes that the smart child will bring more general happiness. In contrast, Ewing will ... agree with the familly`s support of its child because we have a special relationship to our children. The final disagreement with Utilitarian states that if someone saves a person who is drowning, the ... ...

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... begins the conversation that is located in Gorgias from pages 468-e to 479-e by asking Polus if tyrannical rule is in fact good by definition. In finding that the two agree on only one point contained within this question, the fact that acting as one sees fit coincides with acting beneficially, which is good, Socrates then poses the question of whether ... , the treatment is still beneficial, therefore, admirable by definition. The final steps of the argument seem, to the reader, to be leading Polus straight into a trap where he has to agree with the statements of Socrates. The first con...

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... cast as absolutes, independent of temporal human experience; the Form of Good changes with time and individual perceptions and cannot (as Plato felt) exist forever as a concrete standard. In general, I agree with Plato's notion that the immaterial (Form) and the material (matter) are distinctly separate entities; however, I have seen nothing to make me share Plato's belief that all Forms were permanent ... , I deny Plato on the grounds that his Theory of Forms tries too hard to establish concrete, universal definitions for things that depend too much on the material. Though we both agree...

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... no more than an expression of how the word "truth" is defined. Some criticisms focus on an epistemological problem that is involved in knowing whether or not a proposition does indeed agree with the facts. We clearly do classify propositions as true or false in everyday life, but we cannot securely do so on the basis of their correspondence to reality. Charles ... , offered another answer to the question. Pragmatists like Peirce say that the truth of our ideas must be tested through practice. He said that it is something that experts will agree upon when their investigations are final. H...

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... ideal city- state. In 4th and 5th century b.c direct democracy was the form of government used in Athens. Socrates did not agree with this form of government. He was in search of an ideal government. To understand why Socrates did not agree with this form of government we must understand its origin. The word democracy comes from two Greek words: a noun, demos ... ...

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... means of which a person does good, or evil, that is more ambiguous. Socrates believes that "by virtue we are good (53)," however; virtue cannot be taught. Menon and Socrates both agree that to teach virtue, one must at least have the quality of virtue. Upon examining the great and scholarly sage Themistocles, whom would be considered "a grand teacher of virtue (60 ... is all that is left. Though humans do not have complete freedom, they have free will to choose good, evil, or both. Socrates and I both believe this, but I do not agree that virtue comes to humans by chance alone. Since we...

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