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A 3 page paper discussing Plato’s position on the contemplative life. It is reasonable that Plato should have Socrates equating truth with morality. If living the examined life is characterized as a moral action, then it also can be equated as truth. In turn, this serves to distinguish humans from other animals not capable of living the examined life or pursuing truth. For Socrates, living the examined life defines the state of being human. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSphiloSocTruth.rtf
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It came to be the position of the ancient philosophers that the contemplative life was the best use of that life, the best use of the time encompassed by
it. There were practical matters to attend to, of course, but those things should be attended to by less thoughtful individuals. Though equality should be given more than
a passing glance, there were those intrinsically more capable of thinking well. These individuals owed it to themselves and to their society to live the contemplative life. In
this way, they served functions as did those who performed more routine, functional and physically necessary tasks. The Examined Life Plato was an
introspective individual, as it would seem any philosopher necessarily would need to be. He believed that contemplation and conversation created the most reliable path to discovery of the nature
of life and being, for they linked human beings with the vast divine realm of ideas. It was this sea of ideas from
which the soul sprang. In many ways, the body is only a housing structure for the soul, one that can provide the sensory inputs required for the formation of
new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things and events to be experienced in order
to have knowledge of them. The soul was that part of the human existence that could make sense of those things that it
was able to experience by means of the operation of the human body. Though knowledge springs only from experience, "the world we acknowledge through our senses is just a
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