Essays on Philosophical Works

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The Role of Speeches to Represent Love in Symposium

3 pages / 1402 words

Plato's Symposium is not only a discourse on the subject of love, it is a tribute to Socrates and his way of life, and the entire course of the discussion is guided by the ultimate objective of presenting Socrates as the representation of love itself....

Symposium

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The Theme of Love and Its Importance in Symposium

3 pages / 1290 words

Life is filled with dualities and opposing figures: love and hatred, light and dark, male and female, life and death. Aristophanes addresses a duality in the context of love in Plato’s The Symposium. The Symposium raises the question of what love truly is and means....

Symposium

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Plato's Definition of Love in Symposium

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Plato’s theory of love is one of the great thinkers’ most whimsical and inspiring dialogues. In his discussion regarding love, Plato theorizes that love is ‘neither beautiful nor good.’ Love represents the desire of the human individual to attain true pleasure and authentic happiness by...

Symposium

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The Construction of The Concept of Virtue

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Aristotle devotes the first six books of his Nicomachean Ethics to a discussion of virtue. In doing so he divides virtue into two different categories: moral virtue and intellectual virtue and discusses them individually. However, in our approach to the question of the highest moral...

Nicomachean Ethics

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The Understanding Concepts of Function, Reason and Virtue

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In the first two books of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle asserts that the function of humans is to practice rational activity, which completed over a lifetime makes a good life. Aristotle first explores the function and ends of all actions and things, defines the function of...

Nicomachean Ethics

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The Concepts of Motive and Intention in Modern Political Thought

3 pages / 1529 words

Introduction Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Niccolo Machiavelli’s seminal work of political science, The Prince, directed at a prince of the then-powerful Medici family of Florence,...

Nicomachean Ethics

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The Connection Between Happiness, Friendship and Justice

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In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle examines happiness, which is the good towards which every human action is directed. Entangled in this pursuit is Aristotle’s discussion of such ideas as virtue, magnanimity, justice and friendship, as well as the relationships between all of these. Before he can...

Nicomachean Ethics

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The Concept of Courage in The Aristotelian Thought

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For Aristotle, the doctrine of the mean is a moral frame of reference by which each man’s character can be better understood. When applied to specific virtues such as courage, it illuminates what Aristotle believes to be the complex relationship among the agent of virtue,...

Nicomachean Ethics

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Self-love as The Blueprint of Justice According to Aristotle

2 pages / 915 words

Aristotle asks good human beings to be self-lovers, devoting special attention to virtue’s most fundamental groundwork. With all individual actions, it is the intellect which must determine the course of proper morality and strength of character; the path of right action elucidated in Nicomachean Ethics...

Nicomachean Ethics

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The Virtue of True Friendship in The Nicomachean Ethics

4 pages / 2024 words

Friendship is arguably the most relevant philosophical matter expounded upon in The Nicomachean Ethics. While other virtues may not be practiced on a daily basis, friendship and the implications of such a relationship are somewhat more consistent. Living necessitates interactions and relationships with other people,...

Nicomachean Ethics

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Aristotle and Plato's View on Human Nature

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The first basic assertion that is made by Plato and Aristotle about human nature is that people are, according to fundamental differences in their natures, suited to fill different roles in society, that natural aptitude is destiny. What must be made clear, however, is whether...

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A Poetry Critique in The Republic by Plato

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After much deliberation and many intense arguments, Socrates finally reaches a definition for justice and claims that leading a just life is worthwhile both for its consequences and for its own sake. Although these conclusions summarize the main dispute of the Republic, Socrates ventures on...

Plato Plato Republic The Republic

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The Building Blocks of The Republic: a Deserting of The People in The Republic by Socrates

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“[H]ow it would come into being, if it ever were to come into being, you have, in my opinion, Socrates, stated well” (The Republic, 510a). The possibility of the Republic coming into being is the issue which sets the earlier Dialogues apart from The Republic....

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The Unfairness and Misery of The Dictator in The Republic

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In Book VIII of Plato’s Republic, Socrates details the degenerative process of regime change, which transitions from kingship to timocracy to oligarchy to democracy to tyranny. Each regime has its analogue in the soul of man, which is structured in the same manner as the...

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A Battle Between Art and Decency in The Republic

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The role of art in society has always presented a battle between freedom of expression and decency, as is clearly presented in Book III of The Republic. Plato argues that the purpose of the arts is to promote the virtues of wisdom, justice, courage, and...

Plato Plato Republic The Republic

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Morality in Plato's Republic

2 pages / 1175 words

Very early in Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus argues that “In any and every situation, a moral person is worse off than an immoral one”. (343d) Furthermore, that a moral person is a simpleton, while an immoral person exercises sound judgement. (348c-d) Socrates is faced with a...

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The Notion of Noble Lie in The Republic

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The “noble lie” is perhaps one of the most disturbing and thought-worthy aspects of Plato’s Republic. Through its use, the people of the “just regime” are intentionally misled and misdirected in an attempt to make them unified as a group and loyal to the regime....

The Republic

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Analysis of Plato's Concept of The Forms

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Plato’s Concept of the Forms stems from his dialogue ‘The Republic’, written in 380 BC. In this he discusses his use of ‘a priori’ knowledge – truth gained through logical and tangible thought. Instead of observing the world at face value, Plato was a rationalist...

Plato The Republic

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The Components of Virtuous Life and Just Society in Plato's Republic

2 pages / 1214 words

Plato’s most precise ethical argument in his Socratic dialogues is that of justice’s dual effect; he holds that while a “good” may be pleasant in effect, it must also be good in itself in order to qualify as justice. Justice fills the whole of Plato’s...

The Republic