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Motivation
... to be also considered when trying to motivate each individual. Even restructuring various pay structures or skill levels can have an effect on the motivation ... process with the view to improving the way various sections run and to find out what employees ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
The contributions of Plato to the western civilization and philosophy.
... , or ambition. They motivate a person to aim at higher things than the gratification of basic desires. The ambition to excel as a ... the same way, the two lower classes of a city (or country) have to remain balanced, but the Philosophers have to guide them. ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Can Justice in the State Exist in the Individual? Plato
... in opposing ways to a similar scenario. He gives the example of how a hungry man will normally eat a meal given to him, ... do not act alone from one motivation. The individual is like the Kallipolis in that it can react to similar stimuli in differing methods ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Plato: a history of his life and philosophies
... is to help us understand the real world better, by finding ways to predict or understand the real world even without being able to ... an end to it. They may never realise that all their striving is motivated by a search for beauty and goodness. To that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Are you convinced by Plato's claim that philosophers should rule.
... lead to frustration and misery. Plato 's obvious reply is that the virtuous life ruled by reason is the only way to ... are dominant and what order exists between these motives. This analogy is then transferred to Plato 's perfect society. In his society ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
It is 300BC, you are a Platonist. Your friend, also a student, has been condemned to death by the Athenian court. Write him a letter preparing him for his last hours.
... motivations for indicting you. Yes, unfortunately Nicostratus has used his treasured democratic system to commit a great injustice, and has so expertly misled the Ecclesia as to ... , when I suggest that if there is no way of destroying the soul in the realm of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Giant Minds
... to justice; he believed that the only way to create a perfect society characterized by justice was to ... motivated by personal desires to possess or by the inclination to be biased to their group of affiliation. Finally, Plato contended that leaders ought to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Plato's view of Justice in The Republic.
... way to demonstrate the way Plato (whose ideas are represented by the character of Socrates) would handle his sceptics. It also serves to ... economics and rhetoric with especially capitalistic, profit driven motivations) he continues into a less popular (by ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Why does Plato argue that divine commands can never be genuinely moral commands? Do you agree?
... to think this way, as God is brilliantly clean and glorious in comparison to us. Thus, we see that our fear motivates us to ... Thus suggesting that the fear that motivates us to follow such divine commands is not a suitable motive to a certain moral action. ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Plato and his views on Rome
... military whose prime motivation was to serve and protect. The army of Rome was mainly lower-class men trying to climb the social ... way, including his own mother, whom he had murdered" (Spielvogel 155). By this time the senate didn't have enough power to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy