People are born with a natural function. It is the expectation that they will perform the function. Therefore justice is the performance of one's natural function. Furthermore, happiness will come from everybody performing their natural function in society. This is interpretation of justice serves as a basis for Plato's ideal state. His notion of justice is that if people perform their natural function, then their society will be just as a whole. Individual justice is interrelated with societal justice.
#5. Moira - Ancient Greek word for what has been fated or predetermined. Every thing does not depend on free will. In Sophocles" Oedipus it's a conflict between fate and the choice of action. King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes attempted to prevent the prophesy from happening by giving Oedipus away to be killed. Oedipus also does everything in his power to attempt to prevent his fate yet to no avail. He murders his father and marries his mother despite all efforts to prevent the events prophesized by the Oracle at Delphi. He does this unknowingly and he himself is responsible for revealing the realization of his fate through his obstinate determination to discover what is plaguing his kingdom. .
#2. Eidos - What is seen - figure, shape or form. Plato relates this concept in the allegory of the line. Each and every thing in the world is related to a perfect idea. Things that exist in real life are degenerations of the idea of a perfect thing. Therefore eidos is the ideal and is one with the good. We live in the world of appearances consequently everything and everyone in the world is a degeneration of the perfect ideal. .
#6. Praxis - doing something as opposed to creating something. Aristotle went into knowing the good (theoria), desiring the good or bad (poesis) and doing the good or bad (praxis). Praxis is a virtue because it isn't sufficient to know the good, there has to be the desire for the good and only then can you do good.
Other than Sophocles, before him, were Aeschylus and Euripides. ... When Aeschylus began play writing, it was a fairly new idea. ... Aeschylus's plays held a recurring set of traits. ... Sophocles wrote single-plays. ... Poetic language was one of Sophocles strong points. ...
Dante uses allegory to relate the sinner's punishment to his sin, while Plato uses allegory to discuss ignorance and knowledge. ... Plato and Dante criticize the world from different perspectives. Plato criticizes the world from a sociological point of view, while Dante criticizes it from a religious perspective. ... Plato's purpose is to discuss human ignorance, while Dante is exploring human sins. Plato's characters are nameless and faceless, while Dante's are individually described. ...
Plato founded the Academy and came up with a new form of literature, dialogues and speech. ... Plato advocated in public education. ... There were three massive playwrights that survived, Aeschylus (525-456BC), Sophocles (ca. 495-406BC), and Euripides (ca. 485-406BC). One of Aeschylus' works was, The Oresteia (485BC.), which was a trilogy. ... Another playwright was Sophocles. ...
Greg Young The Inferno of Dante A.P. ... Frightened, Dante returns to the forest. ... Beatrice being Dante's love. ... Here Dante saw many poets and writers like Socrates and Plato and Democritus. ... Dante reaches the walls of the City of Dis. ...
Aeschylus presents controversy about defining justice between different gods in the Eumenides. ... There is an immediate transition from the main ideas of this compared to that of Plato's Euthyphro. ... Aeschylus represents a world filled with magic and divinities, something far from today's reality, creating the argument that while both Aeschylus and Plato demonstrate reasonable interpretations of justice, justice as explored through censorship and lies is much more convincing and relevant than justice explored through piety and ancient tradition as seen in the Eumenides. ... Aesc...
Dante's Inferno takes mankind on a frightening journey through the depths of hell. ... Dante's Inferno enables man to understand that the punishment of the soul is retributive justice assigned by God. ... Now that the pilgrim has investigated all sin and knows the foundation of all sin, Dante us spiritually prepared to welcome the hope of salvation Dante's Inferno takes mankind on a frightening journey through the depths of hell. ... Dante's Inferno enables man to understand that the punishment of the soul is retributive justice assigned by God. ... Now...
As a strong defender of these ideas, Dante creates Inferno where is filled with the sinners according to Church. ... (Dante, Inferno, Canto XXVIII, p.21) Besides this religious-reality effect, Dante provides a strong effect using a substance that existed in the same time interval. Substance that Dante used is Fra Dolcino who was known as a heretic and sentenced to the death by the Church, and also lived in the same time of Dante. ... Besides the religious struggle of Dante, Thomas More has a different way of affecting reader with his words. ... As a good reader of Plato's works, More us...
The Latin poet Virgil, who was sent by Dante's lost love Beatrice, rescues Dante. ... Dante's journey begins in Limbo, the first circle. Dante describes Limbo as a "dread abyss that joins a thunderous sound of plaints innumerable, thick with clouds o"erspread (Dante Canto IV)." ... Instead Dante's lost lover, Beatrice, comes to guide Dante on the rest of his journey. ... Beatrice guides Dante to the first circle, the moon. ...
