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Name Teacher Class Date perfect City in Plato's view, with the philosophers and guardians and the working class and how they all work together Plato wrote about his ideal city in his work The Republic.... He called this ideal city as polis which is based on justice and virtue where its citizens serve each other and live according to a universal truth and strives to realize their potentials....
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Plato's feelings are not so outlandish but his arguments in favor of making these conclusions into laws reveal his vulnerability in longing for a perfect society.... It would be nearly impossible to read Plato and not be affected in one way or another.... Republic has long been known to be a vision of Utopia, sought after by many leaders and systems, yet the very unpredictable character of humanity throws a wrench into the works every time.
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What never ceases to capture my attention with Plato is how often quotes from Republic appear from time to time in everyday life from father-to-son advice to advertising slogans....
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Book Report/Review
The author of the essay "Plato's view of Immortality" states that Death is defined as "the separation of the soul from the body"; but is not the end of the soul.... In this view, something that is self-moving "can neither be destroyed nor come into being.... Plato believes in metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls from one living thing to another....
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Plato writes in his book ‘Republic' that stars form a section of the ‘visible world' which it not real or actual world.... While being very beautiful they are a ‘copy of the real world'.... For Plato real world is the ‘world of ideas'.... For Plato change goes hand in hand with deterioration and he describes the creation as “ story of the successiveemergence ofeven lower and less worth forms of life…”the ladder which he climbs down starts from god to ‘the world of reality' which is made up of ‘perfect form and ideas'....
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) Plato's view of RepublicPlato views a republic to be determined by “Good Life.... Having faith in Socrates… Through Socrates questions and descriptions, one is enabled to understand what Plato‘s ideal republic would look like (Mara 28).
Though appreciated by many, Socrates was a critic of Socrates and Plato's Best Political System View Socrates and Plato believed that in an ideal republic, each person can live a more perfect life.... ?? To Plato, “Good Life” is a kind of harmony that is reached through the application of pure reasoning and justice with the product being a more perfect good life possible....
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Indeed, the understanding of human nature could help towards the understanding of the political and social life of a particular society.... It is implied that the… For this reason, most theorists that try to explain the role and the characteristics of political institutions primarily refer to human nature, as Plato seems to follow a different practice....
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However, humans cannot experience the perfect world in this physical world unless they leave the physical world (Dancy 4)....
Plato believed that, beyond this physical world, there existed a perfect and ideal world.... hellip; Therefore, the things and experiences in this world are not all there is.... In this theory, Aristotle considered implications, and no accidents, to be the real things in the world, To him, conditions were universal and comprised the real world....
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This paper "The Ancient world According to Plato" seeks to give a critical analysis of the main aspects of Plato's Timaeus, while at the same time explaining the important role of man in Plato's Timaeus.... This account is in the form of a dialogue that the narrator uses to explain his own views about how the world came into being.... lato tries to explain the perfection of the world in its formation and existence.... ooking at the general structure of Timaeus, we hear of Plato's belief that the world is always striving to become....
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