Plato’s critique on democracy. Professor Samons begins his lecture by asking the question: why do Americans love and aggrandize democracy so much‚ but Plato criticizes it? This was the same question I had throughout Book Eight. It seems that our entire goal as a country is to spread democracy to the rest of the world and to find ways to make ourselves more democratic than we already are. But‚ why spread something that is apparently so corrupt‚ according to Plato? Plato bases his argument on Athens and
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Section 1: Socrates’ argument Socrates sits in a prison cell‚ sentenced to death. His wealthy friend Crito has come to speak with him as he waits for a ship from Delos to return and allow executions to begin. Socrates knows that he‚ “must die the day after the ship arrives (Plato‚ 44).” Socrates also knows that he is not guilty of the crimes he was convicted of‚ stating‚ “There have been many who have accused me to you for many years now‚ and none of their accusations are true (Plato 22).” It is in this
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Internationalism should be pursued to the fullest extent for many different reasons‚ some of them being fair spread of economic wealth around the world and to prevent wars over governmental issues like communism and democracy. Some people argue against internationalism‚ their argument being certain parts of the world are being used for outsourcing‚ but we will argue why that is not a valid point. America is a very large country‚ third largest for ara to be exact but it surprisingly only houses 4
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between mind and the body. The argument against this theory is that mind is private and only the person of his own mind has access to it. Others can only observe behavior and take a guess about the content of the mind. Weakness of dualism lays in the lack of rational understanding about interaction between brain and mind. One can explain the interaction between mind and brain if they believe in supernatural dimensions that are responsible for that. Another argument is based upon what happens when
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An Argument Against Monarchy Monarchy as a governmental system clearly has numerous downfalls for the majority of people. The working class (bourgeoisie) rarely wins. It puts people into a hierarchical system based not on the merit of their character and work ethic but instead from the family they were born into. Those born into the few available positions of power in a monarchy benefit the most. This system can function and create civilizations that exude power and wealth but at a price
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Who decides who is perfect‚ normal‚ and genetically acceptable? The argument of for Eugenics is a widely debated topic that has been going on since as early as 4th Century B.C.‚ when Plato suggested a state-run program to control mating in order to strengthen what Plato considered as the Guardian Class (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‚ 2014). Historically‚ Eugenics has been at the root of several movements to ensure a better human race‚ throughout a wide variety of cultures. How Eugenics is
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2008210003 TKL301/ TAKE-HOME EXAMINATION ARISTOTLE’S DEFENSE OF POETRY AGAINST PLATO IN THE LIGHT OF LITERARY CRITICISM As literary critics‚ Plato and Aristotle have different opinions on poetry and also it’s social effects. Plato’s Republic is a work which is not directly about literature; but his comments on poetry determine his position to it. He presents us a view of literature in a mainly negative way. Unlike Plato‚ Aristotle regards poetry as something positive in his Poetics. Thus‚ they
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From a Christian standpoint‚ God made everyone and each and every person is unique in their own way. Also‚ in the pledge of allegiance it says that we are ‘one nation under God’‚ so would that mean the government would be going against our ancestors Christian morals? This country was based on Christian morals‚ so what would our ancestors think of this? I will admit‚ it would be nice if we lived in a world where no one had no cancer or disease‚ but it is morally wrong. I was raised
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both for and against the biotechnical process of cloning. Among the arguments presented‚ some were persuasive‚ and some were not. With anything in life‚ there are flaws‚ and that is the case with cloning. The topic of cloning presents many issues against cloning‚ for one to think about to form an opinion on the subject. The first argument that is presented revolves around the safety of cloning. Many people are concerned with how safe cloning is for the environment. The next argument deals with the
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However‚ I personally lean towards opposition against DOMA. Though I can understand the ties that marriage has to religious institutions‚ I agree with President Barack Obama’s conception that there can be both religious and civil version of marriage (Pelts‚ 2014)‚ which means that marriage does not have
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