Seeing and knowing as a science topic
Not only in philosophy or literature, social science has been interesting with this topic for a long time. There are lots oft theories and discussions try to deconstruct vision and knowledge with regard to psychology, linguistic and sociology. Besides the … Continue reading →
What is closer to present-day education
Owing to the fact that I am from a traditional and time-honoured Asian country, reading Plato’s philosophic thinking is no doubt harder than other books which contain plots such as Greek tragedies or Shakespeare’s plays. However, the part of education … Continue reading →
Tainted With Superiority
My experience reading Plato’s Republic was a frustrating one. The entire work felt like Plato giving himself a huge pat on the back because he thinks that being a philosopher makes him better than everyone else. Regarding one of the … Continue reading →
Socrates’ Inconsistency
Plato’s Republic is considered a keystone work in the development of western philosophy. Interestingly enough, the famous dialogue is not concise and cohesive — on the other hand, it often contradicts the very arguments that it provides. In the attempt … Continue reading →
Creating the Kallipolis
In Plato’s Kallipolis, power is held by an elite class of guardians who are a perfect synthesis of both the roles of the philosopher and the statesman; someone who is able to understand the Form of the Good that underlay … Continue reading →
The Flaw in Plato’s Republic
Plato’s ideal polis requires the parents to corporate and give their children to the state. Thus allowing the molding of the children from an early age, to become model citizens. However, Plato does not explore the possibility that they will … Continue reading →
Kallipolis: Is Plato for Real?
In trying to define justice and injustice, Plato creates–in theory–a “good” or “just” city, the Kallipolis. This city in his mind expands as the dialogue goes on, with a class structure, education, a constitution (or, as Plato details later on, … Continue reading →
The dynamic of justice and injustice : Why such a tough debate?
One of the many challenges in the debate of justice and injustice is to find evidence that one is desirable over the other. Plato uses several examples, such as the shepherd and the sheep analogy, in which he argues that … Continue reading →
No Freedom In the Kallipolis, No Problemo!
Who needs freedom when we have law and order? This seems to be Plato’s argument throughout Republic. For proposing such an argument, Plato’s been bashed and trashed and smashed many times by modern day philosophers. Some people say he’s a … Continue reading →
Ok Plato, I see you
Although Plato’s Republic was incredibly dry and a rather difficult read for me, I found a few of his nuggets of wisdom to be quite interesting. Plato, speaking through Socrates, is annoyingly very full of himself and his ideas, but … Continue reading →