... city that. Plato created an idealistic city, which he also equates to the individual as if it existed inside a person as well, that had a virtuous "philosopher" King that guided the "polis" to what was just. This was his morality. It existed beyond the senses but could be harnessed by ... one respect or another. Now that "self-interest" predominated in the humanist movement, man could look to the "internal affairs" of mankind and define the state and the civic duties of the masses. Much like Aristotle, and later Nietzsche, Machiavelli looked to history to find the direction of ... that H...

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... reconcile Pericles and Plato (i.e., political action and philosophy) in one. However, democracies must have friendship "for without friends no one would choose to live."" These Greeks and their ideas of virtuous communitarian democracy foreshadowed many beliefs later found in the Enlightenment. Hellenistic thought is proudly pronounced and copied by Condorcet and found in utopias. Rome offered the world's first mixed government ... from are flawed in many ways. Even in attempting to describe (without bias) the idiosyncrasies of men and politics, the humanists fail in their analysis. All...

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