Janelle thompson philosophy 101, professor sevier. february 16, 2018. republic vi-vii questions 1-51. in republic vi, at 507b2-7, plato makes a point that is central to his philosophy. what is that point? how does he relate it (at 507b9-10) to the distinction between visibility and intelligibility? plato made a point that is needed to his philosophy, we speak of beauty itself and good itself. in many cases of all thing we see can be set down as many, we can turn about and set down in accord with a single form of each and believing that there is but one. we call it "the being" of each. plato will relate the visibility and intelligibility by saying many beautiful things and everything else is visible but not as intelligible, while the forms of the intelligible are not visible.

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from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.

1(a) traditional methods of production are upheld.

2(d) to convert private property to state-owned property

3b) feudalism

5(a) question

6(c) to preserve the past

7(d) the opportunity to make a profit

8(b) get paid by the government

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