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The Platonic virtue and the sophists According to Plato (427-347 BC), the virtue can be exercised, but is really innate and as education that the rhetoric or the so-called "sophists" try to give with several arguments little he can do, and to prove this argument, the Athenian philosopher describes a fantasy of dialogue between the sophist Protagoras of Abdera (which claims to be paid for reciting empty mythologies), and Socrates. The setting is home of the wealthy patron Callias who loves the rhetoric for which he spent much of his wealth and Socrates to speak of the teachable of the virtue with Protagoras host of Callias went with a friend at this great house decorated of arcades, but the caretaker bored of seeing crowds of rhetoricians who recite in the house slams the door on him mistaking for a sophist. Having managed to gain entry, Socrates demonstrates with the dialectic that the idea of virtue is innate and than not teachable. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 11, 2011 
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 The Platonic simplicity In the Platonic dialogues at various times the figure of the philosopher in search of ideal type of intent is described as a simple person (in the literary fiction often portrayed by Socrates), barefoot and dressed humbly offers free his mind at times opposed to rich men who think with their empty rhetoric to embarrass and confuse him with logical reasoning without sense. Targets of Plato (427-347 BC) we find for example, Gorgias, Callias and Menon, whose arguments are easily found in the groove of reason through the investigation of Socratic type, particularly in the case of Meno a mathematical proof is provided by the last of his slaves, a young man with no instruction judget for his master less of anything, but manages with the help of a simple calculation already present in his subconscious to solve a complex calculation. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 20, 2011 n°: 1479 The Platonic meditation From the description in some dialogues of the attitudes of Socrates (469-399 BC) before dealing with a specific technique dialectical argument, one wonders what would be the meditation of Platonic type (taught initially probably by Anaxagoras), since that for example in the "Symposium" some guests at a banquet discuss about love, but Socrates does not arrive unmoving to think and to repeated invitations to go and call the friends respond to leave him in peace and not disturb while meditating. Plato wrote many steps to be able to make it clear to the reader what was the careful preparation that the teacher Socrates adopted for exposing the true essence of ideas, moreover, we know from other authors that was able to remain motionless for a whole day and was also very strong physically, with a moral fiber that can withstand the pain. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 01, 2011 n°: 1463 The Platonic servants In a conversation between Socrates and the young Lysis in a new gym on the friendship theme, Plato (427-347 BC, who in life was also made slave) begins his dialectics investigation on the assumption that for to be happy should to be free and a slave that can't do anything want is condemn to be unhappy, but the boy is forced to admit that even if is loved is not free to do almost anything and even the teacher who follows him in his training and his slave seems to enjoy more freedom than he. The difficult situation becomes almost comical when Lysis says, laughing that it would hit only if dare to touch the various tools at home, or at least almost all those for which he has not enough experience and with whom him can make useful, then, according to Socrates seems that all the feelings and almost all the relationships are reduced to the simple utility of an individual against another. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 20, 2010 n°: 1453 The platonic friendship One of the typical human feelings of youth such as friendship or more properly "philia" is analyzed with the dialectic technique from Plato (427-347 BC) in a dialogue between Socrates and the young Lysis, Ippotale, Ctesippo, Menexenus.. and set beneath the walls of the Academy on the road that leads to the Liceo, near which was built a new gymnasium where they train and do the gym. Questioned on the theme of friendship Socrates immediately senses that the friendship of Ippotale for Lysis (nice and so good) hidden a desire and love and friendship are similar according to the philosopher, as the young make friends of the loved young will necessarily have to reciprocate his friendship, but then they appear in the series of demonstrations on this issue a number of difficulties until to the absurd to say that the well may be friend of the evil, and so the dialogue haven't conclusion that there will instead in the "Symposium". e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 03, 2010 n°: 1438 Nicolaevic Lev Tolstoy and the non-violence One of the most famous writers of all time died 7 November 1910 in the station of Astàpovo taken ill after leaving his estate in Yasnaya Polyana for a pilgrimage in which to meditate on his torment for not being able to put into practice the ideals of peace, chastity, non-violent protest, justice, no resistance to evil and the ideals of good that had argued for most of his life and on which he had repeatedly written (coaching Gandhi on how to act and not react against the violence, and even answering benevolently). More that for the his beautiful novels, the theoretical writings, artistic, religious translations, the author is famous for that kind of realism or literary style that tends to drop his characters in the harsh reality, yet in a wonderful nature, almost a philosophy which dominates all and obliged to forced choices, but where you can always see the good. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 07, 2010 n°: 1415 The winged chariot and the Platonic charioteer To represent the type of drives antithetical to the soul in his path in life is continually subjected Plato (427-347 BC) refer to the famous myth of a heavenly winged charioteer of a chariot drawn by two horses, a magnificent good-natured white tending upwards to contemplate the ideas of good and an evil black one that tends to precipitate the chariot chasing materials ideas. The leadership of the wagon as of astronomical type is made difficult because of these spiritual impulses that hinder the charioteer committed to pursue the ideas as the stars of truth, but in this course there is the risk being dragged to the ground from earthly pleasures and this should strengthen its wings with the food of knowledge in order to perpetuate more the (philosophical) flight. The sheer beauty that is a copy of the Well idea stirs the memory of heavenly pleasure in its most noble, pure and ineffable aspect. [Automatic translation global English] e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 20, 2010 n°: 1400 The Plato logic Starting from the careful examination of others philosophical theories Plato (427-347 BC) with a research using a logic of dialectical type on the science concept shows that is not possible to arrive at a conception of truth in those that are without knowledge, and this situation is quite common as when seeing two people that you know from afar (eg Teodoro and Theaetetus) you exchange a bit confusing in the mind as in the case sleepily we put our foot in the wrong shoes, then the philosopher proceed to investigate to the sensations at the base of knowledge by showing that in all the cases these are only opinions that are not fully the Being. The logic was developed on a material basis from the disciple Aristotle with the famous syllogism, a kind of reasoning that makes use of three linked reviews, for example: "All men are mortal - Socrates is a man - Therefore Socrates is mortal." e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 14, 2010 n°: 1369 The Platonic origin of the cosmos The conception of the universe of the philosopher Plato (427-347 BC) is striking and clearly influenced by the geometric and mathematical thinking of the Pythagoreans, so that the dialogue "Timaeus or of the Nature" that is on universal arguments is mainly between Socrates and Timaeus, an astronomer and Pythagoric philosopher of Locri that explains how the universe is the work of the Demiurge, who as good wanted everything to be like him and generated as much as possible in his own likeness. One visible sky is manufactured to the model by divine providence, and the world (made by fire, water, air and land) as the whole cosmos is a living being shaped ball, intelligent and with blood characterized by harmonious proportion of music and mathematics. Regarding the description fits most of the time is was and will in addition, the geometry of the universe is based on solid and polygons, whose plane figure is the basic equilateral triangle. [Automatic translation global English] e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 26, 2010 n°: 1328 Plato's teaching In various dialogues Plato challenges the teaching of the sophists and their payment discourses full of useless rhetoric that is regularly resized with the dialectic and the Socratic irony, doing the same sense that knowledge is virtually free and accessible to all, even if it is requires a certain engagement and a good concentration for the emergence of the idea of truth by any argument. To let this valuable teaching and to implement its project of philosophy, Plato (427 - 347 BC) despite belonged to an important and wealthy family did risky journeys, was made captive and ransomed by his friend Anniceris of Cirenes, then was made new prisoner and also ran great danger of life in Syracuse (357 BC approximately) circumstance that led him to abandon Sicily and return to Athens to continue developing his philosophy, teaching and writing the famous dialogues until the death. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 26, 2010 n°: 1307 Soul - training * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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