... Athens that affects the western civilization is the philosophy of the time. Some of the great philosophers in Athens, besides the law giver, Solon, were Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Socrates was a very ugly, but very wise man. He would go around asking questions that was simple to answer and explore those answers with further questioning until the questions become unanswerable. His questioning frustrated ... felt the citizens of Athens could not create justice and govern themselves. He wrote a book, The Republic, in which he illustrates his perfect society. This book was practiced by Eur...

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