Glaucon

Greece is often credited as the birthplace of western civilization, as well as creating the foundation of political ideologies still used today. The development of these bases of governments would not be possible without input from the bright thinkers and philosophers of the ancient world. Of the ancient Greek philosophers, many had different ideas on what the ideal form of government was, and the city states of Greece allowed the many different forms to rise and fall. The many forms of…

Once they have asserted that fact, once they have made happiness the most fundamental of all ethical terms, writers like Aristotle or Locke, Aquinas or J. S. Mill, cannot escape the question whether all who seek happiness look for it or find it in the same things. Holding that a definite conception of happiness cannot be formulated, Kant thinks that happiness fails even as a pragmatic principle of conduct. "The notion of happiness is so indefinite," he writes, "that although every man wishes to…

William Egginton has given a comprehensive analysis of film in which he argues that “this thematic convergence is not new, but is rather the logical extension of a narrative trope whose history predates the invention of film and, in fact, reaches back to the invention of theater in the 16th century”. William states that what film has brought into the picture at the end of this century is the possibility that the circle will become complete, that the represented reality will cross the threshold…