plato good and evil

1. What is Plato's form of the good?
2. What was Plato's main theory?
3. What is human person according to Plato?
4. Who is a just person according to Plato?
5. What are the two realities for Plato?
6. What are the 3 parts of the soul according to Plato?
7. Is human and person the same?
8. What did Plato say about life?
9. What did Plato say about ethics?
10. What is politics According to Plato?
11. What is Plato's second best state?

What is Plato's form of the good?

The form of the Good is that in virtue of which all good things are good. ... If we want to know about goodness or how to be good or what acts are good acts, according to Plato, what we must study is the Form of the Good. So, Plato held that forms are separate (from particulars) and eternal.

What was Plato's main theory?

The theory of Forms or theory of Ideas is a philosophical theory, concept, or world-view, attributed to Plato, that the physical world is not as real or true as timeless, absolute, unchangeable ideas.

What is human person according to Plato?

Plato's Philosophy of the Human Person: According to Plato, man is body and soul. However, body and soul are separate entities whereby the soul is man's most valuable possession. Man's chief concern must therefore be the good of the soul. Plato's psychology is dualistic. The soul is the initiator of motion.

Who is a just person according to Plato?

Plato strikes an analogy between the human organism on the one hand and social organism on the other. Human organism according to Plato contains three elements-Reason, Spirit and Appetite. An individual is just when each part of his or her soul performs its functions without interfering with those of other elements.

What are the two realities for Plato?

Plato's philosophy asserts that there are two realms: the physical realm and the spiritual realm. The physical realm is the material stuff we see and interact with on a daily basis; this physical realm is changing and imperfect, as we know all too well. The spiritual realm, however, exists beyond the physical realm.

What are the 3 parts of the soul according to Plato?

Plato concludes that there are three separate parts of the soul: appetite, spirit, and reason. In what way are these three distinct parts, and in what way do they make up a unified whole?

Is human and person the same?

Person — a human being regarded as an individual. Human — characteristic of people as opposed to God or animals or machines, especially in being susceptible to weaknesses. ... When you treat someone as a person, you treat them as a man, woman or anything in between depending on the individual person.

What did Plato say about life?

Four central ideas stand out in his work. Plato proposed that our lives go wrong in large part because we almost never give ourselves time to think carefully and logically enough about our plans. And so we end up with the wrong values, careers and relationships. Plato wanted to bring order and clarity to our minds.

What did Plato say about ethics?

Like most other ancient philosophers, Plato maintains a virtue-based eudaemonistic conception of ethics. That is to say, happiness or well-being (eudaimonia) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues (aretê: 'excellence') are the requisite skills and dispositions needed to attain it.

What is politics According to Plato?

Plato believes that conflicting interests of different parts of society can be harmonized. ... The best, rational and righteous, political order, which he proposes, leads to a harmonious unity of society and allows each of its parts to flourish, but not at the expense of others.

What is Plato's second best state?

In the form of an argument between an Athenian, a Spartan, and a Cretan, Plato outlines the "second-best" state (the "law state") in painstaking detail. While holding some of the idealism of the Republic, the Laws aims at a more attainable goal, a community based on the principle of moderation.