Essays on Plato

In the reading “Plato's Apology of Socrates”, Plato makes an argument that he is not supposed to be stopped or prosecuted because he does not believe in God and his continuous enlightenment of the poor masses. Moreover, he argues with Miletus who accuses him of teaching moral virtues such as...

According to Plato, there exists two worlds, our immanent world of dynamic impermanence and a fantastic realm of defining forms that hold together the flux of former world. Using this epistemological sector of Plato s philosophy (the theory of forms), the subjects of this Hydria (water vessel) by a Medias...

In Book Four of Plato’s Republic, Socrates uses the analogy of the city and the soul to demonstrate the three forms that give the soul the same level of justice as the city. If the three classes in the city and the psyche are the same, then an individual’s justice...

Although sharing of knowledge with other people assists in improving their understanding, at some points, it is associated with negative consequences. I agree with Plato’s allegory of the Cave that sharing information with others results to negative outcomes. Plato's allegory is that prisoners live in the chain in a cave. Through...

Contrasting Attitudes Towards Rhetoric: Aristotle and Plato Even though Plato and Aristotle shared some attitudes towards the use of rhetoric in politics, they differed sharply in most cases. Plato believed that the use of rhetoric could have serious negative impacts on the society if it were used by people whose character...

Plato’s ideas as espoused in his writing, “The Republic” greatly influenced Thomas More’s utopian society. Irrespective of this heavy borrowing, the book reveals some highlights which greatly undermine the setup of Plato’s commonwealth because of the contrasting perspectives of More and the context in which the writing takes place. There...

Theory of Knowledge The theory claimed that knowledge gained through the senses is an opinion and for people to possess the actual knowledge, it is paramount to achieve it through philosophical reasoning (Duarte 70). The Allegory of the Cave In this article, Plato offers a distinction between people who confuse their senses knowledge...

The "Great Chain of Being" and its Hierarchy The “Great Chain of Being,” designed by Plato, is a hierarchy showing the interconnection between living and non-living things with regard to intellect or knowledge (Lima). The hierarchical structure indicates that God is at the helm of the order and has knowledge that...

The main justifications for the immortality of the spirit The main justifications for the immortality of the spirit are presented in Plato's book Phaedo. For instance, some people disagree with the claim that human souls are mortal in the book mentioned above. Visual representation of a disagreement over a particular perception In addition...

In the heteroerotic relationships among the ancient Greeks There is a concept that corresponds to Plato's homoerotic doctrine of Love in the Symposium and Phaedrus. As a result, the fundamental goal of this thesis is to examine the details of Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus as important writings concerning the Platonic Eros....

For a long time, the question of whether God exists or not has been the focus of several disputes in the domains of popular culture and philosophy of religion (Swinburne, 2004). There are several arguments for God's existence that can be classified into distinct classifications based on the arguments' proponents....

Many philosophers have proposed ideas that can be utilized to describe situations that people confront in their daily lives. Plato s Allegory of the Cave and Aristotle s political theory are discussed in this article as they apply to my personal experiences. Plato s Allegory of the Cave Plato used the cave...