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• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: THE THEORY OF IDEAS of PLATO

  THE THEORY OF IDEAS of PLATO Plato's theory arises as follows. Socrates, Simmias, and Cebes are all called ‘men'; they have it in common that they are all men. Now when we say ‘Simmias is a man' does the word ‘man' stand for something in the way that the word ‘Simmias' stands for the individual man Simmias? If so, what? Is it the same thing as the word ‘man' stands for in the sentence ‘Cebes is a man'? Plato's answer is yes: in each case in which such an expression occurs it stands for the same...

• What does exoticism say about colonial Britain?

  What does exoticism say about colonial Britain? In a first time, to begin the answer to that question, we are going to define what exoticism is : the quality of seeming unusual or interesting, usually because of associations with a distant country. In art work or literature, many artists told us about exoticism and faraway lands but only the way they see the country not on what it really is. The artists didn't know the reality of the colonies because they didn't have enough money to trav...