Plato

ideas of how to live an ethical lifestyle. Plato was a philosopher who challenged Athenians to change their virtue and improve their soul. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist Minister who challenged the laws the government put in place in the United States. They both changed the ethical lifestyle they were living in, but they both saw a different viewpoint of what was good, justice, and the model leadership style. In this essay, I am going to compare how Plato and King saw an ethical life. In…

Machiavelli criticizing Plato and Aristotle Machiavelli is a realist and is more concerned with how things should be in reality, and his clarifications are based on a real world. Plato is an idealist and he is just thinking of how the ideal world is, they leave in an imaginary world, while Aristotle is always talking about existing states (try to peruse virtue). Machiavelli wants everything to be real and exist in the real world, while Plato and Aristotle have assumes in their imaginary worlds…

In The Republic by Plato, the antagonist Socrates who was Plato’s teacher, states that philosophers are best fit to rule due to their knowledge and understanding of the world. This statement feels like it’s just a bias opinion since Plato is a philosopher among other of his interests, but throughout this work of his he proves why the philosopher deserves power in the ideal state. Although the philosopher king seems like a fine idea in theory, it is unrealistic and contains very few sound ideas…

thoughts and teachings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. When asking who the most overrated philosopher was/is, one should analyze the amount of time that is spent on the philosophers work and if the ideas are discussed more than they need to be. In this case, I would argue that Plato is the most overrated philosopher. For one, some of his dialogues do not feature himself as a character. Socrates is the main character who is debating with opponents. One can argue that Plato may have been using…

Socrates was a Greek philosopher; who life was recorded by his students such as Plato. He is one of the founders of philosophy and he is known for his “Socratic method”. Socrates had a curious mind and he always wondered things. He wanted to find how people should act. We can see this behavior in The Republic when he tries to find a definition for justice. Socrates practiced philosophy, therefore he was accused of “corrupting the young” and not believing in the “gods”, and he was sentenced to…

The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato Plato lived around 427 – 347 BCE. He was a friend and a student of Socrates. Socrates is credited one of the greatest philosopher of all time and founder of western philosophy. Most of Socratic philosophy, dialogues, teaching and conversations have passed on and documented by Plato. Plato is best-known for his works including Phaedo, symposium, Phaedrus and Timeous. Allegory of the cave is from The Republic. The primary purpose is Persuasive. He is trying to…

Ancient Greek, ever since Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundations of Western philosophy. Although some of their theories and findings were rightly discarded along the way by later scientists like Newton, their ways of acquiring knowledge remains very much of use today. I will now discuss which texts have greater influence in my reflection of knowledge. Epistemological concern was one of the philosophical issues that Plato and Aristotle faced. According to Plato, philosophical…

Plato is, undoubtedly, one of the most important PERSONAGGI of ancient philosophy. His new way of doing philosophy and his works have been deeply influential not just for his time, but also for modern years/modern age/contemporaneità. Political ambitions and disillusion toward Athens and the mechanisms of the polis bring Plato to a reflection concerning the world, the human and the living. With his socratic dialogue Republic, Plato reaches the peak of his philosophical research, by providing…

the horse breeder takes care of his horses and the cattle raiser cares for his cattle, these all are pious actions to please the gods (Plato, p. 16). While the two were discussing this third definition of piety, Euthyphro also tells Socrates that “If man knows how to say, and do what is pleasing to the gods at prayer and sacrifice, those are pious actions” (Plato, p. 18). This definition leads to the thought that prayer and sacrifice will get one what they want from the gods, if only it is…

cave with Machiavelli, or see the light with Socrates? “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” ― Plato, The Republic We can observe that today’s generation undergo some very grave and problematic issues. One such is that there is a predicament regarding the lack of successful leadership. The cause why we possess such challenge in today’s human…