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basic teachings of the great philosophers

ges 15-20 the child should be put through moral training including the basic principles of sympathy and goodness. He also believed that girls were inferior. Girls, according to him, should be educated to serve men. Rousseau's main objective was freedom form the requirements of society. 3. What's your view?I believe that education is the key to all understanding. Education to children is very important that it is literally the basis of our whole life. No one can go anywhere in life if they do not have an education first. I also believe that everyone deserves the same opportunity for a good education. Racism, prejudicenothing should change that. No one really understands how important an education is. We need it to liveto growand most of allto learn. . IX. Mind and Matter1. What's Plato's and Aristotle's view?Plato believed that ideas had been put into the mind before they were placed in the body. Birth clouded the mind and made us forget all that we knew. However, through a process of questioning, it was very possible to make the mind remember what we knew before birth. Plato had the belief that the universe was composed of two principles: mind and matter. Mind is entirely distinct from matter. Matter to him is a weight mind must carry because mind has been entangled with matter. Matter is the raw material upon which mind works. It has no form until mind forms it. Mind is the only true reality, the thing of most worth, the principle of law and order in the universe. This matter is impressed by mind with ideas. Aristotle believed that mind was in matter as its formative principle. He thought that there could be no matter without mind and no mind without matter. We find a clearer mind in man. Mind is everywhere. Mind, to Aristotle, is within matter and is the cause of all things. Mind has both a helper and instigator in matter.2. How did Peter Abelard differ from other Christian Philosophers?Early Christian philosophers had a pessimi...

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