...Sheryl D. Breen analyzes the class structure of Plato’s ideal city in The Republic, Kallipolis. Kallipolis, which is initially populated by children with no cultural or historical memory and has a communist ruling elite divorced from manual labor and property ownership is, Breen...

...This chapter elaborates on how all of Western philosophy can be treated as a series of footnotes to Plato, even on theories about love. To some, Platonism may seem to be a critique of the lack of creative originality of later philosophy, but it must be the starting point of every discussion...

...This chapter shifts the focus from Plato, who is suggestive, probing, and imaginative, to Aristotle, who is thorough, commonsensical, and exhaustive in proof. While Aristotle is more interested in analysis than original thinking, he borrows many ideas from his teacher Plato and systematizes them...

... to this approach, which can better conceptualize and guide the long-term preservation of opportunity to live well. Kant, Locke, Plato, and Aristotle also serve as philosophical points of reference. The approach is a methodological hybrid of moral naturalism and constructivism, and the pivotal claims about what...

... on disjunctivism, from its beginnings in the 1960s to a few years ago, which has played a significant role in the development of the theory and its rivals. First, it is important to define perception as it is used in philosophy; according to Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, “All philosophers, from Plato to Mr...

... this the chapter looks back at Plato’s Phaedrus and the Socratic critique of text technologies as not being responsive or interactive. We don’t claim that computing tools are interactive as Socratic dialogue, but we show the ways that interactive tools like Voyant can be placed into dialogue...

... without specific purpose. As opposed to Plato and Aristotle, who believe love to be a search for transcendental goodness, the two poets analyze love as simple sexuality, not differing from what occurs in lower organisms. Love contributes to the human delusion of being unique; love as a way for man...

...Taking up Deleuze’s claim in the 1970s that “pleasure is a rotten idea,” this chapter proposes a philosophical history of pleasure, starting with the opposing definitions of Plato and Aristotle: is pleasure the filling of a lack, or the perfection of an activity? This leads to an extended...

...In the early 1970s, two decades before the World Wide Web came on the scene, the PLATO system pioneered online discussion forums and message boards, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multiplayer games, leading to the spontaneous emergence of the world's first online...

... by Plato in the Republic as cardinal virtues, St. Augustine states that these cannot be virtues without love. Although Plato had suggested in the Symposium that love was the pinnacle of the good life, this thought was not pursued in the Republic. Luther...

..., and the sensual world remained potent in the quadrivium, the four-fold study of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music that was the centerpiece of higher education until about the eighteenth century. This chapter surveys the ongoing connection between music and its sister sciences in the quadrivium from Plato...

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...This epilogue discusses the phenomenon of wonder as not just puzzlement or curiosity, similar to the way Plato and Aristotle have discussed the topic before. Philosophy may seem to have its starting point in puzzlement or curiosity, but, although both concepts are a vital part of the philosophical...

... it expresses and that it does not interpret a phenomenon in terms capable of being subsumed under the same category with that phenomenon itself, but fills it out instead with images that could never appear side by side with it or complete it on its own plane of existence. Revelation, as Plato himself had said...

... Science scientist Language proposition assertion speech Regions Power Violence Aletheia Enframing Gestell Epoch History of ontology Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Physis or phusis House of Being Resource Bestand Technologizing Earth Love Plato Platonic Sending Socrates Wilhelm Withdrawal...

... research, Community Memory, PLATO, Minitel, and ARTEX and continuing into the 1980s and beyond with the Electronic Café, Art Com Electronic Network, Arts Wire, The THING, and many more. With first person accounts from pioneers in the field, as well as papers by artists, scholars, and curators, Social Media...