Plato

This excerpt from The Republic of Plato is a conversation which takes place between Glaucon and Socrates. Socrates begins by telling Glaucon a story. This story is meant to be a metaphor of their society’s nature of education, and also their want for education. Socrates tells Glaucon to imagine human beings as living in an underground cave with a long entrance, open to light across the width of the underground cave. The people in the cave have been there since their early childhood, with…

Through Republic and Timaeus, Plato explains that the distinction between being and becoming has to do with one’s progression from simple, uninformed thoughts to a higher understanding that rivals that of the gods. In Timaeus, he explains that there are two categories: that which always is and has no becoming, which is grasped by understanding, and that which becomes but never is, which is grasped by opinion and sensory perception (Plato 27d-28a). Additionally, in order to transition from…

my personal take on his belief as to why we have an immortal soul. In the reading the Phaedo, Plato presents multiple arguments as to why he believes human beings have an immortal soul. Plato’s definition of immortal means a never ending cycle of the existence of the soul. When the body…

The intentionality of Plato’s pedagogy is emphasized in nearly every aspect of The Republic concerning education. Intentionality in the educational approach is the best way to be able to accurately predict the “finished product,” if you will. J. Pfeifer and S. Sarkar define something that has intentionality as something that is about, directed on, or represents something else. Just as the conduction of an experiment governed by the concepts outlined in the scientific method attempts to limit the…

In the 4th century B.C., a time of great liberty and great conflict, two books were written: The Republic by Plato, and Politics by Aristotle. These two books hold a philosophical analysis of government and the state of humanity within from the perspectives of a teacher and his pupil, Plato and Aristotle respectively. Even though both of these men were Athenian citizens during the world’s first democracy, they both identified similar flaws in the state of Democracy. Democracy, in Greek society…

It is not surprising that Plato and Aristotle share certain points of view considering their teacher-student relationship, but it is certainly not shocking that certain opinions of great minds like theirs clash in other respects. Their views on music follow the same example of both related and clashing ideas. PLATO, in his “utopian” republic chooses music, next to gymnastics, as one of the two components of education. He believes that education should begin in early years and continue through…

Name: Laoise Ni Chuinneagain Student number: 15523033 Plato’s philosophy is an attept to justify Socrates’ belief on the objectivity of moral virtues Introduction Socrates and Plato are considered by many two of the greatest philosophers the world has ever known. They took a different approach to the Metaphysical Philosophers of their time. The metaphysical philosophers such as Thales and Anaximenes tried to find an explanation other than mythical reasons for how the world came…

“Plato and Immortality: An examination of the argument in the Republic, Book X,” an article by R. R. Hartford, argues that the tenth book of the Republic is noteworthy because of its historical influence on thought and because of Plato’s striking claims throughout. It emphasizes the Phaedrus argument, that reasoned the endless position of the spirit from which everything else lacks and shows that the Republic argument comes to the same conclusion because the soul lacks a characteristic which…

using the works of Aristophanes and Plato; specifically Clouds, Ion and The Republic. Even though Socrates’ thoughts and ideas were never personally composed, one can dissect the works of these authors in order to adequately gain an understanding of Socrates’ convictions as a philosopher. There is a solid distinction between the two authors; Plato wrote mostly philosophical dialogues, whereas Aristophanes was a comedic playwright. It is also worth mentioning that Plato was a student of Socrates…

interpret the illusions of reality in the same way, political control has been achieved. ‘The Allegory of the Cave’ by Plato shows a political structure designed to control how reality is perceived. Control is established by a hierarchy. The classes are determined by the people’s ability to clothe illusions as truth, as opposed to finding truth and using it to dismiss falsehood. Plato argues that the enlightened, or higher men, should be the custodians of rulership, and that they should have an…