... also be beneficial to discuss and compare another philosopher's account to the nature of politics, and in this instance I have chosen the works of Plato in particular The Republic, establishing a comparison to define whom has the more convincing argument and why? Machiavelli lived amidst a deteriorating, corrupt, totalitarian, 16th Century political ... policy. He does not infer that this account is the be all and end all of successful rule and acknowledges himself as a humble man who has taken the time to study the deeds of great men to form an ideology that can be taken by the reader,...

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... based on a parallel between what he believes to be the soul of man and the state. Plato divides the soul into three parts: the appetitive or of desires, the spiritual or emotional, and the rational part concerned with obtaining wisdom. The highest and best of these three parts is the rational part. Plato then creates a parallel between the soul and the State. The appetitive side ... individuals are told a lie about there past and are told a bigger lie in order to subject them into social classes. I think that this is a great contradiction in Plato's philosophy. In his book The Republic ...

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