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Plato vs. Marx: Philosophical Arguments
Everyone has different views and ideas in today's society. It was no different back in the times of Plato and Karl Marx. These two famous philosophers developed their own ideas and beliefs about different subjects. Plato and Marx's views differed in the subject of Epistemology, the study ....
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.... that true knowledge originated from the world of becoming. To understand and gain knowledge according to Marx, one had to study things and experience them first hand in the real, physical world.
According to Plato, the rulers or kings in the ideal state are philosophers. A true philosopher, who must be a special kind of person in order to rule, enjoys learning about all things. Plato describes a philosopher in his republic as one who has a passion for wisdom and the one who desires all wisdom, not only some part of it. Plato feels that t ....
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