Plato

Allegory in Rebel Without a Cause is found in a simple set of candles. Shortly after Jim, Judy, and Plato break into the mansion, Plato lights several candles and begins to carry them around in…

modern society today to map out the stages of life a person can go through. The levels that are exampled throughout the allegory can show people a better way of understanding why they cannot connect to others in a way they think they should be able to. Plato used the example of the cave to show the different levels in life every individual goes through. Those chained up lived in a world of imagination and illusions were on the lowest level. The next level, were the people in the cave that were…

As a whole, Plato’s Republic is not an ideal state, however, there are specific ideas and qualities of his description of a state that could help make an ideal society in which to live. In his Republic, Plato expresses his ideas of justice and injustice, the good of the individual versus the good of the many, power, class structure, virtues, the simile of the philosopher king, and much more to demonstrate his idea of the ideal state, or regime. First it is important to examine Plato’s idea of…

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, became some of the most well known and foundational philosophers to the world of psychology, religion, and philosophy. Through many years of instruction and travels Socrates had developed theories that later influenced Plato’s dialogues and Aristotle’s books. This built the foundation for the Western Style of thinking and psychology. Thousands of psychologists are influenced through their teachers and theories that they develop are built around Socrates, Plato,…

Plato gives his main ideas on justice in his book Politea which can be considered as a book about justice providing an ideal model and organization of the ideal state. In the first book, Plato deals with the meaning of justice. Considering the answers that he got from his friends, such as justice is giving each man what he owns or justice is the advantage of the stronger, he presented arguments in favor of justice by examining the injustice; unjust man is ignorant, injustice produces internal…

The ancient Greeks, were a society based on honor and virtue. Great philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle still have a huge significance today in society. They argued that the best life for humans beings is a life devoted to “virtue”, but just how much of that is true and how is that reflected today in our society? Plato, student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle thought that what is morally good is whatever promotes “virtue” which is a certain health, beauty and good condition in the soul…

the “Sea of Beauty” and of the sun in the allegory of the cave, explaining what each refers to, how it works for Plato, and what putting these images side by side reveals about Plato’s understanding of philosophy. The “Sea of Beauty” that Plato often refers to is the final step in his “Ascent of Love.” His “Ascent of Love” is related in the context of education and philosophy. Plato believes that one can only ascend to the “Sea of Beauty” through philosophy taught by a skilled teacher. This…

endeavoring to comprehend something essential about what we do and how we live. It intends to develop our comprehension of our general surroundings on the grounds that questioning is an integral part of human practice. As for Plato, ''This wondering is where philosophy begins'' (Plato, Theaetetus,155d). Plato's philosophy is marked by the usage of dialectic, which are expresssions of a definitive correspondence that can occur between people. The principal focus of this paper reflect and…

governance, the earliest and most detailed description of justice comes from Plato in his Republic. Plato argues that justice is…

Summary of “The Allegory of the Cave” “The Allegory of the Cave,” is a small excerpt from The Republic, Book 7, written by a famous philosopher named Plato. In this excerpt, he vividly describes a mystical process that prepares and awakens man to his true destiny. Prisoners are captivated in the cave in their entire life where they see nothing but an illusion, only a shadow of the object. By chance, one of the prisoners is forced to go outside of the cave, where he discovers the nature of…