Category: Plato

Platos Allegory of the Cave presents an excellent metaphor for how easy it is to confuse truth and illusion, and how challenging the path to enlightenment can be. Like the prisoners eyes would hurt if they were exposed to the light of day, many people are living with a fear of being exposed to the…

Introduction One of the main aspects of a contemporary living in the West is that, as time goes on, citizens continue to grow intellectually marginalized  something that will eventually result in them being turned into nothing short of organic machines, whose purpose of existence is being solely concerned with processing food/experiencing sensual pleasures, as…

I regularly review your reputable philosophical literature and its moral ethics. I am writing this letter to proclaim how your philosophy has been helpful to me in handling my everyday decision-making reasoning. The concept of happiness has helped me achieve my existence, nature, and self-happiness. I have used the idea of happiness and disobedience in…

In Platos Euthyphro, the character Euthyphro offers four definitions of piety. The first definition states that piety is what is loved by the gods, while impiety is what is hated by the gods (Lu). The second definition states that piety is doing what is pleasing to the gods, while impiety is doing what is not…

Platos whole Doctrine of Ideas was founded on his ethics, politics, and humanity as a Greek philosopher. Plato believed that Sophistry was harmful, so his primary concern was that its rhetorical techniques, debate strategy, and social standing would eventually cause the cultures and communities to disintegrate. Sophistry and the Sophist frequently lacked objective criteria regarding…

The Allegory of the Cave describes a human community, forced to live in a dark cave. Shackles limit the prisoners movements so that they can see only the things in front of them. Their perception of the world is limited to the shadows they can see on the walls and the echoes they hear in…

Platos Symposium 201d-212c is primarily focused on Socratess speech. The Greek philosopher and thinker addresses Agathon about the notion and nature of Love. He uses the wisdom he received from Diotima of Mantinea in order to explain what role and place Love holds. The first aspect of the speech focuses on Agathons arguments about Love…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Bibliography Introduction The importance of Platos allegory of the cave for consequential development of Western philosophical thought can hardly be underestimated, as it had laid a foundation for European metaphysics, as we know them. Therefore, it will not be an exaggeration on our part, to suggest that the…

Introduction Political theory is the study of political ideas like democracy, power, and justice that are used in understating political practices and institutions. Politics form the basis of our day-to-day life, where politicians are seen to be chasing their view of self-worth and urge to show their leadership skills. Rites of passage range from birth,…

The founder of the famous philosophical school  the Academy, the Athenian philosopher Plato, 427-347 BC, created a holistic religious and philosophical teaching about the transcendental divine principle, knowledge of which is the meaning and purpose of a persons earthly life and a condition for his salvation after death. The religious philosophy of Plato himself…