Aristotle’s Physics Book II
Book II, Chapter 1 – Nature is an intrinsic principle, art is extrinsic. In Book II, Aristotle tries to identify […]
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Aristotle’s Physics Book I
The basic idea in book one is to find out the number Chapter 1 – Natural Science Aristotle lays out
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Outline and Definitions from Aristotle’s Physics
Defintions Matter (I)- That out of which something comes to be and which persists in the result Nature (II) –
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Summary of the Republic by Effects and Cause
The “visible” plan of the Republic G158/A81 Introduction : the five challenges Prologue : the setting 327a-369b (39) 327a-328c ( 1)
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Plato’s Republic (Book IX-X)
Tyrannical Person: proofs that the just are happier than the unjust Lawless friends plus money from a father =
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Plato’s Republic (Book VIII)
Review of the Aristocracy (543)Socrates picks up the argument that was interrupted in Book V. Glaucon remembers that Socrates was
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Plato’s Republic (Book V-VII)
3 Waves of Objections/Somatic Unit of Polis (449a-474a; V.1–V.16) Socrates is about to embark on a discussion of the unjust
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Plato’s Republic (Books II-IV)
Genesis of the Polis (369a-434d) (367b) They ask Socrates to defend justice for its own sake, not for its benefits
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Plato’s Republic Prologue (Books I – II.10)
PROLOGUE of The Republic “Tales” (myths) about injustice (327a-368d) Bk. I (327a) Socrates was on his way with Glaucon to
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Summary of Plato’s Phaedo
In the Phaedo, Socrates defends the immortality of the soul and gives an account of the purpose of the philosophical life. The
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