... common within Plato's writings. There is little in Book X of The Republic that would reconcile Plato with the poets. Poetry is imitative and corrupting and its purpose is simply to give pleasure to an audience. Plato says little of a possible didactic end in poetry; some imitations, he ... show them to be evil or acting without proper decorum. But in Book X he sees poetry, and indeed the imitative arts in general, as generally corrupting: "with a very few exceptions" (Republic, X, p52). Plato's conclusion that poetry is nearly exclusively harmful is, as we have seen, ... based upon th...

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... greedy. One example would be Charles I, who came into power after his father James I died. He felt that he should control England as a sole ruler, without Parliament. He tried to force the Puritans to accept his religous ways, which drove many of them out of England. In 1642, he was finally overthrown in a civil war against forces led by Oliver Cromwell ... , who later removed the Parliament by force. Charles I is a obvious example of the corruption of power. Another figure in the corruption of power was Louis XIV. Louis, after gaining the throne in 1661, removed all high nobles ... to ...

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... in the interest of the powerful, propertied and privileged. The reasoning behind this view of the state is the assumption that political authority in any shape or form is completely corrupting. While it is possible to get rid of the state, people may argue that to completely abolish the state is almost impossible. It is argued that there will always been ... in society. Another theorist, Stirner, suggests the state rips people of their natural egoism and as a result, the state is believed by some to control the behavior of individuals and force them into unnatural social relations. Anar...

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... believe that wealth makes a country great. A country with wealth will have power because it will be able to defend itself and be able to influence other countries with fear of force or with economic sanctions or both. However, a country could be very wealthy and not have power if the people and/or its governments are corrupt. What makes a country truly great ... their own gods have done nothing whatever to preserve that republic that served them, and to restrain it from ruin by such precepts, but have rather hastened its destruction, by corrupting its morality through their pestilent ex...

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