Essays On Plato

Known as one of the world’s greatest mysteries, Atlantis is a legend written by the Greek philosopher Plato. The legend was written thousands of years ago, but it is still talked about today (Smith Michael and Debora Smith). Scholars often argue that Atlantis existed, but those that do not agree remind those scholars that there […]

Plato introduces his concept of justice and the Good in his 10 books, which describe the ideal state and, which, in turn, embodies that justice (Plato 360 BC as qtd in Book Notes 2004). Justice is an inherent and unavoidable social and political concept in the ideal society and state. “The Republic” describes justice as […]

The Ancient philosophers wrestled with the problem of change. There were two prominent philosophers: Heraclitus and Parmenides.Heraclitus argued that the fundamental character of reality is change itself. Everything in reality, said Heraclitus, is changing. “One cannot step into the same river twice,” he wrote, since it is endlessly flowing. Thus, he denied any permanence or […]

The late prime minister of Ethiopia Meles Zenawi and his leadership was a hot issue for the past 22 year at home in Ethiopia and abroad. He was an extraordinary and mysterious person to many. For this reason, people said it is difficult to understand him, his character and leadership. For instance, Tadale Lemma described […]

Behind The Lens Many people question themselves when they think they aren’t right about something because everyone else around them believes the opposite. What you think might be truer than you think because the world tends to believe what they want to, and not the truth. In Plato’s philosophical example of life in the “Allegory […]

Term paper Plato’s theory of forms “Everything which exist in this world and all things that we see around us are not as they appear to us” this is the core idea behind plato’s theory of forms. From this idea only he moves towards explaining his world of forms or ideas. In his book called […]

The purpose of this paper is to prove that Socrates is successful in replying to the objections of Simmias and Cebes in Plato’s Phaedo, and in proving the soul to be immortal. Simmias’ objection basically challenges Socrates’ claim that the soul is immortal. Simmias inquires why the soul is not similar to a lyre and […]

Plato’s Guardian Class Guardians are put into place to defend morality and rule society because they know the truth and posses the knowledge and wisdom of true forms. In order for there to be a just state, there must be a balance between the different types of people, namely; reason dominated, spirit dominated and appetite […]

Concept of Beauty according to the Western Philosophers “Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” John Keats Beauty is an emotional element, a pleasure of ours, which nevertheless we regard as a quality of thing. The ideas of beauty is found in almost every […]

Throughout Plat’s play, Omen, many rhetorical devices are used to display the concept of defining virtue followed by exploring whether it is innate or taught. Plat’s character Socrates uses these devices to explain his logical thinking and his questions to Omen. Rhetorical devices also help the concepts be easily understood by the reader. Through the […]

Cypher betrays his comrades s can once again live in the computer simulation. In the Plato cave allegory piece, there is a dialogue taking place between Socra and Plato’s brother Glaucon. Here, Socrates describes a scenario in which men ar held captive as prisoners in a cave from childhood. The men have their legs and […]

Where were you – your soul, your spirit – before you were born? If the soul is immortal, did it have a “life” before your birth? Plato believed that the soul existed prior to our existence in human form. In Plato’s theory, “ Our souls possess knowledge of the Forms before we are born, and […]

In his novel Brave New World Aldous Huxley warns of the consequence of over-reliance on material knowledge. Plato’s account of the last days of Socrates also presents us with an argument against materialism, but rather as dialectic. Huxley is trying to come to grips with a modern world in which material values reign supreme. In […]

As a requirement for our Introduction to Philosophy class, I just finish reading 95 percent of the book “Sophie’s World” by Jostein Gaarder. Indeed, this book is phenomenal because of its huge success and as a literary breakthrough in the world of Philosophy. Also it combines the teaching and appreciation of Philosophy with a simple […]

Plato explains that doctrine of forms is this seeing a object for what it truly is for example its like if you separate roundness of a basketball from its color, its weight. You would then just look at it for what it truly is. why he says this is because a form is just a […]

Nietzsche and Plato have many similarities in their discussion of political philosophy. Both dislike and hold contempt for democracy, and both favour a meritocratically chosen elite holding authority. There are even many similarities between the characteristics that they require in the group. However, there are differences too. Nietzsche doesn’t outline a strict theory of authority, […]

Plato’s ethics concerning well-being arise from the end of the discussion on justice where Thrasymachus articulates that justice is in fact merely a social contract whereby people agree not to inflict harm on others in return for not being harmed. Out of this rises the question well if this is all justice is, if it […]

A: Plato believed that humans could be broken down into 3 parts: the body, the mind and the soul. The body is the physical part of the body that is only concerned with the material world, and through which we are able to experience the world we live in. it wants to experience self-gratification. It […]

Plato’s theories about reality involve the allegory, in which Plato expresses something of his beliefs about learning, and his beliefs about the relation between the world of appearances and the world of Reality. Plato suggests that there was a difference between intellectual knowledge, gained through reason, and the knowledge gained through using the senses. He […]

There is very little known about Protagoras as only fragments of his work remain. As such the fragments have no qualification to them and it is down to others such as Plato and Sextus to interpret them and give us some idea of his meaning. Perhaps the most famous of these fragments is that which […]

Credited as one of the laminitis of Western doctrine. he is a puzzling figure known chiefly through the histories of subsequently classical authors. particularly the Hagiographas of his pupils Plato and Xenophon. and the dramas of his modern-day Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato’s duologues are the most comprehensive histories of Socrates to last from […]

UPPOSING that Truth is a woman—what so? Is at that place non land for surmising that all philosophers. in so far as they have been doctrinaires. hold failed to understand women—that the awful earnestness and gawky urgency with which they have normally paid their references to Truth. have been unskilled and indecent methods for winning […]