The Nature of Comparative Research in Philosophy of Education: Faaraabee's Method M.H. Mirzaamohammadi, Ph.D. Comparative research, from a philosophical perspective in education, goes beyond the mere comparison of two ideas or subjects, and necessitates both judgment and critical analysis. Considering the complexities of the educational processes, doing comparative research in educati...

Abstract Scholars of political thought often view Plato as a ‘political moralist’, or ‘utopian’ partly due to the Republic’s emphasis on ‘justice’. But in Republic, offers distinctive theory legitimacy, one that grounds legitimacy an interdependent relationship between justice and moderation. Justice requires principle specialisation be respected, while moderation citizens agree about who shoul...

representational theory of the philosophy of art. Though Plato builds the foundation of the mimetic theory of art, he does not finish the structure of his theory. His student Aristotle was one of the first to expand on Plato's foundation and refining his initial theory. While Plato largely dismisses artistic mimesis and the imitative arts, Aristotle is more supportive of them. This is because w...

Tasks performed on machine translation (MT) output are associated with input text types such as genre and topic. Predictive Linguistic Assessments of Translation Output, or PLATO, MT Evaluation (MTE) explores a predictive relationship between linguistic metrics and the information processing tasks reliably performable on output. PLATO assigns a linguistic signature, which cuts across the task-b...

In each of Plato's major cosmological works, the Timaeus , the Statesman myth and the Philebus , he asserts that the body of the whole universe is alive and possesses a single WorldSoul which extends throughout it. I wish to offer a new interpretation of the role of the World-Soul which gives the World-Soul a special function in the economy of the Platonic cosmology and which explains why Plato...

since plato is regarded as the first philosopher who started writing on aesthetics and impacted upon artistic aesthetics following him, a review of his perspective on artistic aesthetic is of crucial importance. although fine arts in its current form have not existed at the time of plato, his ideas could be discovered from what he has sporadically expressed on fine arts. there are two viewpoint...