Plato believed that even individuals who practice justice are forced to do it from the inability to do injustice due to fears of punishment. Plato felt that a democracy or rule of the people gave each man, both just and unjust, license to do whatever they wanted. While he felt that the law of a strong form of government would force men to honor the laws equally. Plato believed that justice was the advantage of the stronger, which to him was the control of the ruling body of the city by being master over the people and punishing any who broke the laws set down by the regime.(Bloom,338e-339a) Plato to believed that education and rearing of the ruler of the city or regime would create a perfect and just man. And he felt that the ruler must be older, while the ruled younger. Age is something that gives his perfect regime more control than one based on wisdom. He

thought that the philosopher should be seen as the father, over the youn

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on the passions of people that he felt a democracy permitted its people to do. Plato saw the oligarchic, democratic, and tyrannic regimes as each being unjust, the last being the worst, while the philosophic regime to him has a type of man that is both good and just. Plato believes that it is unjust for the poor to establish a democracy by killing others and

Platos regime is based on reason of an educated man, that was not corrupt, but one that had knowledge of what was just, working side by side, improving from one generation to the next. And those who were leaders of the cities were ones that showed the highest abilities in intellect, while those least in ability of knowledge, would be of the lower class, such as farmers and merchants. To Plato only the philosophy

to be in government. Confucius did not believe that the classes were forever fixed based on the fact that he had been in and out of power, traveling and looking for jobs in government to help the people to be ruled justly and promote a moral example of how everyone should live in

Confucius believed in the Way, for man to be fully human, to live in peace and harmony with nature and their fellow human beings.(Wills, Jr.p.26) Confucius believed in benevolence (ren) that is composed of the characters of man and two. It meant manly or handsome in early Zhou texts, but it represents the highest realization of man in desire to do

Both believed in justice, but only Confucius had faith in the people that they are moral and ethical, and obey the law not for fear of force, but because they are treated justly and benevolently by those in power, and therefore would want peace and harmony that was maintained by a moral, ethical, benevolent ruler who was at peace with nature.

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