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The idea of Plato's "unexamined life is not worth living" with comparison to the Autobiography of Malcolm X

Introduction

In early literary efforts, Plato tried to convey the spirit of Socrates' teaching by presenting accurate reports of the master's conversational interactions, for which these dialogues are our primary source of information (Guthrie, p.46). Whereas, Malcolm's teachings was based on Islam and believed that black people should create their own identity without depending on the power structure of white people.

Plato's idea

Plato is one of the most important Greek philosophers. He founded the academy in Athens, an institution devoted to research and instruction in philosophy and the sciences. His works on philosophy, politics and mathematics were very influential and laid the foundations for Euclid's systematic approach to mathematics.

For Plato there are different objects, different meanings as shown to us through the senses. These perceived sensations are only imperfect imaging (the appearances) of the original idea the particular thing, this concept of the archetypal dimension. For Plato, the world we live in and feel so real, or what we perceive around us is but a transient model of the real world which is none other than the world of Ideas, is only cloudy incomplete images, blurred copies of the intelligible people who live exclusively divine entities and ideas (Linder, p.a1-3).

Platonic philosophy

The ideas of Plato are not meanings, but realities (the real Being). Ideas are an eternal and unchanging world, which exists for itself and that only with the intellect becomes apparent. For Plato's ideas belong to an imaginary world. This world with everything belonging to him, the real being, divine and mentally infernal, Plato considers him in one real world and sees everything outside of it is not really and that simply being involved in a grade being. When Plato recognizes imaginary ideas as true and authentic standards of all the values, virtues, and of the miraculous acts of inspirational creations, it means that out of the ideas nowhere they are real. Similar qualities, virtues, superior traits may appear in everything that is not idea, but did not truly belong (Linder, p.a1-3).

In this earthly world to spend his worldly adventures, while the nature of the environment belongs to supernatural ideas. All learning and knowledge is recollection. For Earth, the perceived senses are blurred images of the luminous world of ideas. The soul while living in the world of ideas has experienced the true essence of things (the real Being). In the earthly world with the senses and recognizes reminisce on significantly incomplete portrayals of archetypal concepts, which are ideas (Guthrie, p.46). Everyone has within them the knowledge and truth and what should be done is to revoke their memory.

These ideas in Platonic philosophy we have a triple function:

Ontological: represent the actual is the actual beings (the substance that the real being).Every being is what it is because in this presented an idea (presence) or because it takes part in it. So the idea of a thing is ...