Socrates was a man who was after the truth and was known as an absolutist, and his main goal was finding Justice or the good. He had a student named Plato, who was inspired by Socrates. Based on Plato’s inspiration he started focusing on virtue. Plato thought of two theories, one being the Protagoras which are those who believe that if they believe it is good then it is indeed good, and the Republic who believe that virtue is knowledge and based on one’s soul. With this theory, Plato began saying that there were three structures of the soul, also known as a tripartite soul which includes appetite which is the greatest threat to a human soul because, it keeps wanting more, reason is one’s rational thoughts and spirit is well known as one’s
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Once you understand the form and how it has the capabilities to jump over a hurdle, then you will understand how Copper or the particular jumped over the hurdle. It was not just Plato though who studied virtue and wanted to understand more, Aristotle also had some theories about virtues and justice. Aristotle was a student of Plato who took some of Plato’s theories and looked a little deeper than what Plato had done. Aristotle came up with Dual telos which says that a human is born and over time matures, the human then reproduces to make more humans. Dual telos is telling us that we are only here because nature is driven by propercition and that our life is to focus on reproducing which in Aristotle’s words makes us social animals. He also said that in connection to our dual telos, we have a spiritual/political telos which is going to be specific to us as a person. It classifies what we want, believe in, even our likings, which eventually lead us to eudemonia or happiness. Aristotle believed that in order to reach eudemonia first we had to reach arête or excellence. In order to explain this, think of a dancer. She or he has numerous performances a week, during their performance the dancer starts to feel excellence or that
Once you understand the form and how it has the capabilities to jump over a hurdle, then you will understand how Copper or the particular jumped over the hurdle. It was not just Plato though who studied virtue and wanted to understand more, Aristotle also had some theories about virtues and justice. Aristotle was a student of Plato who took some of Plato’s theories and looked a little deeper than what Plato had done. Aristotle came up with Dual telos which says that a human is born and over time matures, the human then reproduces to make more humans. Dual telos is telling us that we are only here because nature is driven by propercition and that our life is to focus on reproducing which in Aristotle’s words makes us social animals. He also said that in connection to our dual telos, we have a spiritual/political telos which is going to be specific to us as a person. It classifies what we want, believe in, even our likings, which eventually lead us to eudemonia or happiness. Aristotle believed that in order to reach eudemonia first we had to reach arête or excellence. In order to explain this, think of a dancer. She or he has numerous performances a week, during their performance the dancer starts to feel excellence or that