... is no difference between a just man and a just society, when it comes to searching justice for individuals in the state. Moreover, Plato argues that state is formed for particular purpose. Individual people are not self-sufficient and no one can acquire all the necessities in life. In order to resolve this difficulty, we gather together in order to achieve our common goals ... was not created for any purpose or to serve anyone. To Aristotle, all associations are political, but the state aims to the highest good in the society. However, Aristotle does not emphasize state unity much as Pla...

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... three elements that are based on the sources of activities you will achieve at the best. The three elements that part of the psyche are reason, spirit, and appetite. Reason involves the power of being able to think and speak and make decisions for what is good or bad and to help determining certain goals. This may include philosophers or kings in charge of a city that ... use reason to help them be a leader. Spirit is driven by pride. It is being proud of who you are or where you are from. Not being scared to wear you school colors on the away team's side. The spirit you have is your st...

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... Greek, and those who lived governed by kings. In an age of almost non-stop warfare, the male citizens of a Greek polis between the ages of 18 and 60 were obliged to serve in the army. In return, they were granted a voice in governmental issues. The Athenians liked to believe that by making men free and politically responsible, the acropolis civilized its individual citizens and enabled them ... order and justice (the inherently good) on one side while the agents of chaos and disorder (the inherently evil) adorn the other. This comparison manifests itself in both the depiction of the rea...

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... nature a friend and relative of truth, justice, courage, and moderation." (VI 487 e) It is understood, from the above paragraph, that the philosopher kings go through a period of faulty sense perception, but do all the philosopher kings go through this period at the same time? These philosopher kings most likely make individual miscalculations concerning marriages and births at individual times. If this were true, how can philosopher ... they are described in book VI, it seems that philosopher kings have the knowledge and understanding to correct these mistakes and prevent the destructio...

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... real things. Only by gaining knowledge through education can people break the chains and begin the stage of thought. At this stage, they are still in the cave, but now see that the fire which was behind the objects were causing the shadows. The next stage is thought, where people escape the cave and begin to see all else around them as real. At first, they are blinded by ... in a dream as the many cities nowadays are governed by men who fight over shadows with one another and form factions for the sake of ruling, as though it were some great good" (P. 199 line 520 C). This is what Plato...

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... interesting so I can get through this report. So I guess I better get started. I"ll start with the one that sounds the coolest. Sparta Sparta is my favorite of the two cities in my report because in my opinion they were the most interesting. The education system, the government, their way of life, all revolved around war. There is a story about a Spartan boy who stole a fox. In order to ... of Sparta only one king was to go, probably so there weren"t disagreements, or they couldn"t afford to lose two kings. Athens The Athenians were located on the Attic peninsula, one of the least ferti...

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... state would be based on the model of the soul; we"ll get to that later. The ideal state has three castes in which everyone would know their place, The Philosopher Kings, the Guardians, and the Laborers. The Philosopher Kings rule society. The Kings would not be a monarchy, they are the ones who train their minds to reason, and have gained wisdom. Above all, the Philosopher Kings must reason, because the creation of a good state depends ... equal. Women can govern just as effectively as a man, because they have they have the same powers of reasoning, and rulers govern through their abili...

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... in and out of this volume that range from gaucho to military and from frockcoated to totalitarian." These types of governments are very controlling. There is one ruler who makes the laws for all peoples. There is no democracy and there is a centralized government. Some unique forms of these types of governments are Cuba and Russia ... today's professional soldier is committed to political movements or interests based on traditional ideological questions of liberal or conservative." In comparison, the Caudillo and today's soldier did not fit the stereotype of just one political group. Ca...

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... knew these forms, then he knew the truth. These things, however, could only be achieved by a mind that had been properly trained. One of his idea forms was his vision of government. He did not trust the democracy. He felt that the highest rank should belong to the philosophers who were also kings, followed by the courageous, and ended with the rest of who must have desire ... . He established the Academy at which he taught Aristotle. The third school of thought was that of Aristotle (384-322 B. C.). He felt that ... job of working toward our common interest. The citizen of a state who h...

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... over an entire nation. Greek dramas showed that even great heroes have weaknesses, and inevitably fall from power, often having a negative impact on the lives of their people as well. The characters of Agamemnon, Oedipus, and Jason, all remarkable and once-great men, each fall from their power into death or despair. They had become too powerful, too arrogant, and too ambitious, and so ... the gods cut them down. This pattern of kings falling from power because of weaknesses and character flaws is very common in Greek dramas. The Greeks were proud of ... their democratic system, and the...

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... sets up a situation where proof is not so much necessary for any of his points as it is to say that the philosopher, the only one who sees clearly, says so.? It is these men, the philosophers, who best understood the harmony of all parts of the universe were closest to God and that only they were capable of creating a harmonious and just society. These philosophers, he ... believed, would agree and get along with each other with equal harmony rather than break into hostile faction. ?Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world ... have the spirit and power of ph...

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... were mostly merchants and farmers, while Spartan men became soldiers as a general rule. Women were allowed to inherit land in Sparta. The Athenians went through a very short economical golden age, while the Spartans never had such a thing. Athens and Sparta also had completely contradictory governments. The Athenians had a direct democracy while the Spartans had an oligarchy. The Athenian democracy, the first genuine democracy in recorded history, is ... by its citizens. There was no sole decision maker at the top of the chain. The majority of each vote was the deciding factor. Sparta o...

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... . They all played a part and I will show there strengths and weaknesses and choose which one should be honored in the National Museum. Plato was the man to think up the republic form of government. He believed that the government should be there to help maintain the common welfare. In order to run the nation he believed the leaders needed to be the wisest people from the nation. These men, "Philosopher-kings", would ... be selected based on their decision making abilities. Plato believed that the average person can ... ...

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... Athens actually had voting rights (not to mention all of them were upper class citizens who were over 30 years old), which wouldn't technically make it a "true democracy". Both Athens and Sparta had an Assembly, whose members were elected by the people. On the other hand, the Oligarchy in Sparta consisted of two kings (rulers until they died or were forced out of ... office), 5 overseers, a council/senate, and the assembly. Sparta's government didn't offer as much freedom as Athens' did, but it best met ... to be warriors. Their school was not as brutal, but all girls in ancient Sparta...

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