Plato�s Allegory of the Cave, Education and Leadership; the Implications for the State.
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A five page paper which looks at the principles underlying the concepts of enlightenment, responsibility and leadership in Plato�s Allegory of the Cave and the qualities which Plato perceives as essential for the foundation and internal cohesion of the State, with regard to the role of the philosopher in interacting with and guiding the people towards the acquisition of truth and virtue. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Plato�s Arguments in �Meno�
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This 8 page report discusses Plato�s �Meno� and the issues it presents in terms of virtue and knowledge. In �Meno,� Plato considers the definition of knowledge as recollection or invention. It also addresses how knowledge and wisdom is recognized by the soul and makes the point that all is already. Only the mind rediscovers �news� while truth simply is. Such a description may also be applied to the understanding of what virtue is, other than the fact that virtue is. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Plato�s Concept of Justice and his Theory of Forms
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An 8 page paper which examines the way Plato presented his concept of justice, through his theory of forms, developed in the works �The Republic� and �Crito.� In addition to analysis, strengths and weaknesses of Plato�s theory are also presented. No additional sources are used.
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Plato�s Format of Dialogue
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This 5 page report discusses how Plato kept the thinking of Socrates alive through the many imaginary conversations which present and recount Socrates� thought and opinions. Socrates did not give formal instruction in the typical fashion of other philosophers of his time. His method of educating was to involve others in conversation, seeking, chiefly by questions, to induce his contemporaries, and especially the young men, to think clearly and to act reasonably. The paper addresses what Socrates thought his role was as a philosopher and the correct objective of philosophy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Plato�s Normative Ethical Theory & Virtues
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This 5 page report discusses Plato�s normative ethical theory in relation to the idea of the ethics of virtues as a division of ethical egoism. The question is explored as to what degree an individual�s actions are determined through ethics or virtues and fundamental self-motivated egoism. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Plato�s �Euthyphro� and the Concept of Piety
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This 5 page report discusses one of the earliest dialogues of Plato, the Euthyphro, is devoted to the issue of piety and virtue and offers a great deal of insight to his larger views regarding the ethics and egoism of virtue and the definitions of piety. In his dialogue with Euthyphro, Socrates asks �What is holiness (or piety)?� Euthyphro answers: �the holy is this, what all gods love, and the opposite, what all gods hate, is unholy.� Of course, such a statement leads Socrates to then ask then if something is holy because it is loved by the gods or do the gods love it because it is holy and the reader, along with Euthyphro, receives a lesson in multi-dimensional thinking. No additional sources.
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Plato�s �Meno�
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This 5 page report discusses Plato�s �Meno� and how he developed arguments about the substance of memory and techniques to access memory in his work �Meno.� �Meno� stimulated new debates about the cultural structures related to memory and their control, and about the definition of knowledge as recollection or invention. Bibliography lists only the primary source.
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Plato�s �Phaedo,� the Newtonian Revolution and �The Blair Witch Project�
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This 6 page report discusses the fact that Plato explains that the capacity to understand the world outside the world of the individual and his/her internal world includes the ability to interpret, characterize, and associate what seems to be singular things or, at least, singular groups of things. Sir Isaac Newton demonstrate the ability to do that in the context of scientific inquiry. However, centuries later, a movie such as �The Blair Witch Project� still demonstrates humanity�s determination and inability to understand the realm of the metaphysical or the supernatural. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Plato�s �Protagoras�
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This 5 page report discusses Plato�s �Protagoras� and the idea that the ideals of both Socrates and Protagoras are both hedonistic and ascetic. Each is convinced that his point of view regarding the practice of self-denial as a measure of personal and spiritual discipline is the �right� one. In addition, each believes that he knows and can best explain what is the basis of the sole good in life and through which means a person may attain it. No additional sources.
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Plato�s �Symposium� and Nietzsche�s �Beyond Good and Evil�
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A 5 page paper which examines Plato�s possible response to Nietzsche�s argument that Socrates form of rationalism overly tames youth. No additional sources cited.
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