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(3pp) Socrates could understand the difference
between the visible world and the intellectual
world and believe that the mind is the cause of
all things. He also believed that to truly know
what is good is to do it, without separating ideas
and knowledge from the lives and actions of
people.
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all things move, flow, and change. Certainly Socrates used definitions and was aware of universal concepts, but there is a fine line between this and Platos "ideas" as formalized entities.
It is possible that Socrates could understand the difference between the visible world and the intellectual world and believe that the mind is the cause of all things. He also
believed that to truly know what is good is to do it, without separating ideas and knowledge from the lives and actions of people. Socrates seems to have focused his
energy on the practical questions of how to live the good life. b)The improvement of ones soul The type of questions which Socrates did discuss - were largely questions
which would develop a framework which would lead to the improvement of ones soul, such as: What is holy, what is unholy; what is beautiful, what is shameful; what is
just, what is unjust; what is common sense, what is madness; what is courage, and what is cowardice..." Definitions evolved through the examination of opposites. II
a)Offred Offred is the major character of Margaret Atwoods 1986 novel, The Handmaids Tale is set in the futuristic Republic of Gilead. Sometime in the future, conservative Christians take
control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticides, nuclear waste, or leaks from chemical weapons. The few fertile
women are taken to camps and trained to be handmaidens, birth-mothers for the upper-class Consequently the pursuit of excellence theme in this novel is to put reproduction in an non-emotional
arena. Ironically this puts the pursuit of reproductive excellence in an emotionally sterile area. Infertile lower-class women are sent either to clean up toxic waste or to become
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