Biography of Plato. Plato was a Greek philosopher‚ mathematician‚ rhetorician‚ writer‚ founder of Academy‚ and even a double Olympic champion. He was born in 427 BCE in family of wealthy and influential Athenian parents: Ariston and Perictione. Plato ’s real name was Aristocles. For his athletic figure his wrestling coach called him Plato‚ which means “broad”. As Plato was from a wealthy family‚ he got the best teachers of that time‚ who taught him music‚ grammar and athletics. At the age
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a very talented and intelligent girl. She was invited to attend the Gifted Symposium for her intelligence. Lindsey goes away to this symposium with other students in junior and high school. At the very end of the symposium‚ the students are given a challenge‚ normally it’s to create the best mouse trap‚ but they changed it up this year. The new challenge was how to commit the perfect murder. I think the Gifted Symposium was wrong by initiating a How to commit the perfect murder challenge‚ because
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boy being exploited by an older man‚ the old world definition and practice was much more widely spread‚ encouraged and perhaps idealized by some. Plato’s Symposium contains a creation myth‚ credited to and proposed by Aristophanes‚ a playwright in ancient Athens‚ concerning the origin of humans like many other ancient Greek myths. Aristophanes‚ a comic and satirical playwright‚ was probably in the house of those who idealized
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Symposium Summary Some Details on the Mollusk Symbiont Symposium It’s not everyday you hear a Caucasian woman say ‘lumun-lumun’ with gusto and a thick American accent‚ and not everyday do we UP students encounter a free event that provides lots of good food for snacks and lunch. These were some of the main highlights of the past symposium (March 5‚ 2012)‚ the Philippine Mollusk Symbiont Interntional Cooperative Biodiversity Group that was held at the Marine Science Institute. I did not stay the
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Exam 3‚ response to question 2 ‚ Aristophanes and Thucydides. Briahna Miner 3704138 December 13th 2011 Aristophanes and Thucydides both wrote during the Peloponnesian War‚ the former wrote comic plays and the latter wrote a more serious account of what was happening. Although they were authors of two very different forms of literature they had the common tie of being critical of democracy and blamed it’s downfalls for the Athenian loss of the war. They looked at the same facts about the same events
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absurd and ridiculous love life of ancient Roman aristocrats lead us
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"Plato’s Symposium" Kaboom‚ that was the sound of Zeus’s thunder crashing towards the Earth. During this time period the people in Greece believed in these gods. Also happening at the same time period was when the worlds most famous philosophers began to come out and teach. Most importantly the philosophers did what they were suppose to‚ and that was to question the world around them. One of the most famous philosophers in the Greek period around 416 B.C. was a man named Socrates. Socrates was
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In order for Plato to create his idea of a perfect society‚ he makes the argument that censorship is essential for the benefit of the society as a whole. Though his idea opposes the fundamental beliefs of his audience‚ Plato creates a rhetorical strategy that disputes the case in which there must be censorship within the Republic. Plato also argues that monitoring what the children are exposed to will ultimately benefit not only the children‚ but the entire Republic. In order for Plato to get his audience
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There were many great philosophers who have contributed in making philosophy what it is today‚ one of them being Plato. In addition to being an outstanding philosopher‚ he was also a mathematician and a writer. One of Plato’s biggest inspirations was his very own teacher Socrates. Socrates never wrote down a word of what he said‚ but thankfully Plato was able to record it all down for him and wrote many dialogues about Socrates words and teachings. One of Plato’s most famous works was his dialogue
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1. Introduction In this essay in is a discussion about based on philosopher and which group of people Plato thinks should be ruling and why. The essay will start off with clarifying key concepts‚ for example what is a philosopher because it is much easier to understand the easy when one understands the key terms in it‚ terms that will appear throughout the essay itself. Then Plato’s theory will then be analysed in more detail and it is also of great importance that one also talks about Plato’s
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