... can be attained. Both Plato and Aristotle favor a state that elite is in the leadership of the government. Plato use the term "Philosopher Kings" to describe this type of leadership, while Aristotle calls it the "aristocracy." Aristotle defines aristocracy as a government formed of best men absolutely, which are selected based on merit and virtue. Both Plato and Aristotle warned the danger of state being ruled in the democracy form, although Aristotle is little more open-mind about ... rulers will raise up state problems by not letting the poor benefit from the state's public policy. At...

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... the role of pre-existing knowledge and understanding in the search for "absolute truth." Conversely, Aristotle was concerned with the more physical aspects of nature, primarily Natural Sciences. The major distinctions can be viewed in differing opinions between the two over: forms and causation,(mainly how the relate to change), eternal ideas, and the role of observation and explanation through use of the senses. It was through their differing approaches about the nature of ... the true forms of things. The allegory reinforces the argument that although we see the images the shadows cast ...

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... rational soul with wisdom as its virtue, the stratum of warriors, whose virtue is courage, the stratum of craftsmen, the desiring part of soul, with abstinence as its primary virtue, conforming to it. Such a division of aims detracts nothing from the principle of justice, as soon as it's founded not on social tenets, but on natural gifts, its foundations being not at all accidental. Making use of an ancient myth, in fact, Plato ... that balances passions, disappearing in "the unity of reason-, and where each individual "loses himself- as a private person in the rationality of State. Sta...

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... and water, being just those things we make most frequent and constant use of, have the greatest effect on our bodily condition."" This drinking water should be separated from all-purpose water. Aristotle, in his designing of the Ideal State, was quite concerned with the health and well being of the state's citizens. This may be why Aristotle believed that the best ruled state would be ruled by a wise and experienced group ... and interprets what he sees. Slavery was a universally accepted thing, yet Aristotle grants the slave the faculty of reason, the capacity of freedom, and the right...

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... among equals. According to his theory, there are many forms of egalitarianism and people should not cite one as a standard for the other. For example, we should judge people according to their talents, virtues, physiology, beauty and wealth. We cannot use one single condition to judge their parity. The flaw in his philosophy is that he also agreed that slaves ... is forced upon them. According to Rousseau, " If some men are by nature slaves, the reason is that they have been made slaves against nature. Force made the first slave: cowardice has perpetuated the species." This statement d...

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... reoccurrence. When something happens for a second time you know that it happens for a reason and you must investigate what that reason was to prevent or predict such events in the future. Political science is different from other sciences such as chemistry and physics in the way that it does not have any specific established laws. Many attempts have been ... Political scientists would study the works of great political philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli and try to make new interpretations. However the answers they came up with were usually oversimplified and relied o...

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... anointed to them after the fall of the U.S.S.R. in 1991. That event basically marked the end of the Cold War. A war fought by development of weapons on a large scale. The Cold War was the height of countries and their power, it got to a point where the two countries produced so many weapons of mass destruction, that neither could use their weapons out of fear of the whole world being lost in the turmoil. The display of possible power kept this ... working conditions or child labor laws, it is using its power for this reason. Power has been the center point of all famous political thinke...

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