... society in his book "The Republic". The purpose of his thought process was to cleanse his society of the woes he felt plagued it and construct a new one. Plato lived during the Peloponnesian War, which consequently lead to the end of the Athenian democracy. He had eyewitness account of his mentor's (Socrates) trial and execution. Bitter and angered by the political corruption that gripped the Athenian democratic government, he ... is flexible, part liberal and part conservative. Plato's ideal society is so difficult to conceive that Aristotle believes that no human being can achieve its...

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... More, in his 1518 book Utopia, originally conceived the term, although not the actual concept - many philosophers would say that the concept of utopia is something inherent to the human psyche. The idea of utopia, even in literature, is far older than More's romance; it appears in the Timaeus of Plato and is fully developed in his Republic. The idealized description of Sparta in Plutarchs life of Lycurgus ... belongs to the same class of literary Utopias, though it professes to be historical. A similar idea also occurs in legends of worldwide currency, the best known of these being the ...

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