... always fascinated the popular imagination and still does thousands of years later. This utopian society, as once described by Plato, has survived through myth and lore for thousands of years. What makes the lost continent of Atlantis enticing is that people want to believe. As a race, humans want to believe that what some think was the greatest civilization ever, existed 5000 years prior to recorded ... history. Curiosity drives mankind to want to be proud to say that their ancestors flourished in an unimaginable utopian society so that people can identify ... with it and make some sor...

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... ) of what he believes these values should be the quintessence of. He also goes on to explain his views on the just individual which he grapples with many people throughout the duration of the text. Here we see Socrates' real ideal and philosophical beliefs coming to the forefront in the way he refutes others ideas, and how he frames his own Utopian society ... . In terms of political wisdom as an ideology Socrates easily explains it with the roles of the guardians in his city. (Book II, 368d- end Book III, 412c-end) Here he makes his views known that wisdom is not just something that you ...

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The main objective in Plato's philosophy is a creation of a perfect society. He constructs a foundation for a utopian 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 ... the idea of moderation on a high pedestal. Many individuals come to favor the concept of moderation because it 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 rudimentary requirements. He ...

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... . However, in questions of government it's difficult to find out who has the best skills, and it's rather uncertain if a politician would apply all his skills to the interests of society, and not to those of his own or his class, party or faith. The next consideration lies in the fact that in Plato's thought the notion of justice implies State ... some kinds of work, although requiring high skills, may be assessed as harmful. That's why, an important task of government is to determine, what should be a person's work. For centuries, Plato's concept of ideal' state has been many times crit...

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... the stronger. When the philosopher king creates the Myth of the Metals they are establishing laws or principles for the separation of society into classes i.e. a person with silver is a soldier, a person with brass and iron is a craftsmen. And in accordance with what Thrasymachus says these laws are evidently being established to perpetuate the rule of the philosopher kings. Plato even goes so far as ... he thinks that the philosophers are going to do whatever is best for their society. However if they, as philosophers who are at a much higher intellectual level than the other people, a...

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