The twentieth century saw democracy at the forefront, a sharp contrast from a history in which most people did not exist under democratic systems. The first appearance of democracy in ancient Athens around the fifth century B.C. is an exceptional phenomenon. While modern Americans define the conce...

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Justice is the underlining truth in the Republic of Plato. However the question is, is Plato's idea of a just society in fact the "truth-? Socrates spent a great deal of his life seeking out the "truth- and definitions of question that would universally answer the notion of right and wrong; ...

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