Plato

Philosophers help us find the meaning of life. Plato was someone who helped us understand life. He lived from 427-347 B.C. He was a writer and a teacher who wrote in dialog. He used Socrates as his main character. Plato wrote the allegory of the cave. Plato sets the scene by having us picture a cave full of people who haven't ever been out of the cave. The people are chained up and can only look at a wall. As the sun shines and people walk by it makes a story for the cavemen. They tell stories

Although this was the city-states’ first attempt at starting a democracy, it was known to be one of the world’s most extraordinary systems of government. However, in Plato’s Republic it’s obvious that Plato feel passionately toward a different form of government being the better choice to govern a society. Plato criticizes the Athenian Democracy because of his own personal beliefs that an aristocracy was the best regime, democracy indulges poor desires, and that philosophers

Plato and Locke's Views on an Innate Idea        What is an innate idea?  This can be defined as some idea or mental representation that is produced by outside perception or created anew by our imagination. It exists in the mind in virtue of the nature of the human mind.  According to Plato most if not all of our knowledge is innate. However, John Locke feels that we do not have any innate ideas.  Then the question arises of who is right or are they both wrong

“The Apology” by Plato Socrates was a Greek philosopher who stood for knowledge and virtue. He believed that in order for people to live their best lives, it is necessary for them to do what is right. “It is wicked and shameful to do wrong, to disobey ones superior, be he god or man (Cooper, 29b).” Socrates represents self-knowledge which is evident through his quest for finding someone who was wiser than he was. After his run ins with the likes of the local politicians, craftsmen and poets, Socrates

Both Plato and Aristotle have an extensive idea on who should rule a state, they both had an idea on how to improve existing societies during their lifetimes. Plato’s main argument on why philosophers were fit to be rulers was because they had better education. This aspect was based on four virtues which are wisdom, courage, moderation and justice. Justice has to do with harmony that results when everyone is actively engaged in fulfilling his role and does not meddle with that of others. Plato sought

First, Plato argues that humans are vulnerable to false ideas because of the limitations of our senses. This is shown in the conversation between Socrates, a speaker in his allegory, and Glaucon, the second speaker. Socrates explains to Glaucon that the prisoners in Plato’s metaphorical cave are bound to assume that the shadows thrown on the wall, by the fire, are real and that the objects held by the passers-by, along the road, belong to the shadows. “And so in every way they would believe that

created before the person and would continue on after the person was no more, unlike contemporary concepts of the soul, this concept was not based on religion or religious views as it didn’t exist then (Stevenson, Haberman, & Matthews Wright, 2013). Plato believed that one must endeavour to take care of their soul as it is eternal and more important than the body (Stevenson, Haberman, & Matthews Wright, 2013). Plato’s tripartite theory of the mind, is one of the most notable ancient theories of the

Hume vs. Plato on Knowledge Introduction Plato's ideas on knowledge represent, perhaps, the most foundational and influential attempt to establish the boundaries of what can be known. His ideas have had an immense influence on successive philosophers as well as Western Civilization as a whole. David Hume, who came over two millennia after Plato, represents perhaps the most relevant attempt to establish the boundaries of what can be known. Thesis: According to Hume's position on ideas and causation

conflict emanating throughout all mankind questions the significance of knowledge to human nature, regarding knowledge’s definition, acquisition, branches, and value. Major role models in the foundation of philosophy - specifically, in this essay, Plato and Aristotle - obsess over the significance of knowledge and its importance to and relationship with the development of human beings and their mindsets. Although Plato’s view on knowledge describes the internal predisposed essence of all Forms and

Plato distinguishes and justifies his distinction between genuine knowledge and right opinion. The three major approaches which Plato takes are psychological: based on the structure of the rational soul. Epistemological: based on the establishment of standards of truth and knowledge. Metaphysical: based on a theory of reality. Plato 's theory of knowledge originates from the seemingly past debates amid Socrates and the sophists, of that Plato 's dialogues give us a vivid picture. The method Plato