Thursday, May 29, 2008

Plato

(Lived between 427 BC. M - 347 BC). Philosopher Greeks old, one of the greatest Western philosophers, so that Western philosophy considered it is nothing but footnotes to Plato. Knew through his manuscripts collected between philosophy and poetry and art. His writings in the form of dialogues and letters and Ibegramat (Abigram: a short poem Court is closed wisely and ridiculed known Aristotle's philosophy terms gem essence, old-fashioned way, saying it is aware of the substance total for each what is realistic. while setting Plato's philosophy as the world of ideas, idea, meaning the idea base unconditional phenomenon. In spite of this difference, both teacher and students studying topics from philosophy as it relates to kidney universal, total Vorsto find things in the existing reality, while Plato finds the total independent away from material things, and macro-phenomena and the relationship of material things is the relationship of example prototype (ideal exemplar) and the application. philosophical way Aristotle meant to ascend from a study of natural phenomena and leading to the identification and definition of the total, while Plato was the start of the ideas and ideals to come down then to the representations and perceptions of ideas and applications on the ground.
Plato is Orstokulais, nicknamed Plato because of the large body, the most famous philosophers of Greece at all. Born in Athens in the family Orstoukratip. Called some Harahih the title of "the divine Plato." Is said to be in its infancy, a student of the sophists and Kratils, pupil Hrakulaitts, before to be associated with Bmwalimh Socrates was twenty years old. Plato was influenced much later ruling unjust sentence against Socrates and led to his death; which made him realize that the states are badly governed, and that in order to restore order and justice should become a philosophy as a basis for policy. This is why Vilsova to travel to Egypt, then to southern Italy, which was then considered part of the country's ancient Greece. There he met Balwithagurien. He then moved from there to Sicily, where he met with Dionysos, King of Siracusa tyrant, in the hope that makes this city state governed by philosophy. But it was a failed experiment, soon led him to return to Athens, where he founded, in the gardens Okademus, his school, which has become known as the Academy of Plato. But this did not prevent him from resuming the ball more times to establish a fabled utopia in Siracusa under the rule of the King of the new Dionysus, the young man, also in the failure of his attempts; which persuaded him to settle permanently in Athens, where he finished his life surrounded by his pupils. Philosophy:
Find the Plato knew what was after a way of dialogue, which was a drama philosophical, through which his ideas through personal Socrates, who represents to a certain extent it is very difficult, from a distance, the distinction between the doctrine of the student, and the doctrine of his teacher, which did not leave us any nothing written. This has left Plato writing twenty-eight dialogue, represented by, from the dialogues first, or "Socratic", leading to the latter, where will age and maturity, an image of Socrates, which in nature ideal;, as revealed through his theory of ideals, and where to address the issues macroscopic important.
Platonic metaphysics distinguish between two worlds: the first world, or the perceived world, is a world of pluralism, a realm of becoming and corruption. And is this world between the presence and nonentity, and is a source of illusions (meaning metaphor Cave) because in fact learned from the other, in that it does not find the principle of existence but in the real world, such as reasonable, which are perfect examples are the things perceived are distorted. Because things do not exist except through the simulation, participation, and because the fundamental elements are the result and the outcome of a process performed by the flood, God, maker, gave the form of a substance that is, in itself, eternal and non-created (Timeos).
This consists of a world Mahsusat ideas metaphysical (Caldairp, triangle) and the ideas of "non-default" (Kalhdhir, justice, beauty, etc.), those that make up the system in tune, because the architectural structure and sequence because of and through the principle of high ideal standard is " source object and the essence of other ideals, "any example of good.
But how can we indulge in the world of ideals and access to knowledge? In his fable, Plato explains the process of the fall of the human soul, which plunged into the world Mahsusat - after having lived in the upper world - through union with the body. But this self, and by touch so significant, they become able to enter the depths of themselves to discover, as memory forgotten essence obvious already Tommeltha in her past: This is the theory of memory, which is expressed mainly in his Menon, during the interrogation of al-young and observations of Socrates, who "discovered" because the finds in the same engineering principle that a person did not learn the latter in his life.
The art of dialogue and debate, or to transfer Aldeketika, is what allows the soul to rise above the things about the world of multiple and shifting visual contact to the world of ideas. It is through this Aldeketika ascending assets, thought to recognize the flag from the view that knowledge is formed from the vernacular fantasies, beliefs and mixing the correct error. Here, the math, that science Alwithagori on the numbers and shapes, just a preliminary study. Because when we learn this math "for knowledge, and not for business processes" through which we can become "self-whitening [...] for reflection and truth." Because the highest degree of knowledge, which comes as a result of dialectical escalation, are those defined by the Scout way to know for the obvious things.
Therefore, it must be human - who belongs to two worlds - that is liberated from the body (material) to live according to the requirements of the eternal spirit of nature, as suggested by the theory of remembering and trying to prove by arguments Fedun. For this man must live in the best possible way. Knowing well that prevents him from committing evil. And that "not one of his own evil," the virtue, which leads to true happiness, achieved, primarily, through justice, which is the harmony resulting from the psychological undergo sensitivity of the heart subject to the wisdom of the mind. Thus, the objective of the State becomes, on a general level, the city's rule-based, so moving all of its citizens to virtue.
This was inspired by Plato's many communal, social and philosophical theories, from Utopia Thomas Moore and Campanella, leading to theories that modern socialism under the influence, to one extent or another. In general, the thought of Plato had an effect on the overall depth of the western thought, both in the field of theology (Jewish, Muslim and Christian), or in the field of philosophy of secular thought this is the first model.
His works include:
Banquet or "in love": This shows the dialogue, which was authored in the year 384 BC, how to access the truth can be in other ways than the mind, and not just on the way: Because there is also a function of the heart, allowing a shift from the concept of sensuous beauty to the concept of beauty full of obvious example.
The story is the story of the poet Agathon, who lived in his house a banquet to celebrate the success of the first theatrical work for it. At the banquet, asked each of the guests, including Socrates, to lay the word glorify God of love - especially the myth of Aristophanes, who developed the initial Hermaphrodite. The Socrates, from the praise of beauty, trying to determine the nature of love, avoiding falling into the trap of the debate, just stick to the truth. Vistaid words of Diotima, a priestess Mantini, to emphasize that love is a "devil" and an intermediary between humans and gods; because it is both a son of poverty (or need) - because the desire of what is missing - and the son of wealth - because of being "brave, determined, blaze, and ... and shifty "- he (the father of love) always tries to acquire good and Ahinap in various ways, ranging from the sexual act leading to physical and spiritual activity paramount. Valdiaketika Almtrgip lift us from the love of the body to the love of beautiful souls, to reach us finally to the love of science. Because, as it is a desire for immortality and aspiration to the beauty in itself, brings us love to love the heavenly land. This is the meaning of what was later named Platonic love, which is true love, also brings us to the logic of the banquet. The importance of this dialogue - which is one of the most beautiful dialogues - not have been impaired during the whole history of philosophy: where we find the resonance, for example, in the Christian doctrine of St. Augustine, who believed that "every act of love is, in the end, the love of God."
Fedun or "in spirit": There is this dialogue in the room which was awaiting death by Socrates. Because the audience, and because it was alleged that the true philosopher is not afraid of death, calls for the teacher to demonstrate the immortality of the soul. Here, is being extended four basic arguments:
The first argument, which is based on the existence of paradoxes, it says, from the continuing happening of things, we can not understand something (sleeping, for example) without reference to its opposite (awake but not exclusively). Because the death shows the transition from life to afterlife, it is reasonable to believe that "born again" means to move it back to life. Thus, whether the self reborn, this means that reincarnation is a reality.
The second argument is based on those ideas, which we call memories. Because what we face in the sensory world is a beautiful things, but it is not beauty. So you see us try to look at the latter through those things, which, Basthoudarha, inevitably takes us back to the moments of life on earth was our spirit where direct contact with the purity.
Says third argument that can be included all exist within Mqolten two: saying first includes all that is complex (and therefore the possible disintegration) of any article; and saying the other, which includes what is simple (ie, can not be dismantled), as part of what is aware, any spirit .
When the notes Kebeos that Socrates, who proved the possibility of transmission of the soul from one body to another, did not demonstrate the immortality of the latter per se, answered Socrates through the presentation of an extensive, deals with the theory goes, as it shows at the end that the spirit is not compatible with death because it is those elements that can not change its nature.