The educational system proposed in Plato's Republic and our current educational system has both similarities and differences. His approach to education is much more authoritarian than ours is today. In order to provide protection and expansion in his republic, an army of guardians are selected to serve as rulers. A problem arises when he realizes that military rule could easily lead to a dictatorship. Plato then ... proposed an educational system in order to prevent a dictatorship by educating the guardians so that they will be gentle towards their own people, yet ... of classes they want to...

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... just and unjust. However, the only problem with this is the fact that not all would agree with Gorgias's standard of morality, which could be considered unjust and therefore corrupting to his pupils, no to mention the audience. Upon researching Plato's views on objective standards of morality, we learn that even in his other works, the Republic and Symposium, Plato argues against moral and aesthetic ... subjectivism. Rather, Plato approaches morality from the Egoistic standpoint in believing that you should do what is actually best for you, not ... what you think is best for you. Given...

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... a prince actually does live. He writes, "I have thought proper to represent things as they are in a real truth, rather than as they are imagined."" (pg. 49) Plato may have had a very utopian idea represented in The Republic, but that situation has never been a reality, and, most likely, will never come to be. Instead, Machiavelli wants to focus on what princes and rulers have ... and actions detrimental to his empire will be vices. Machiavelli did not so much redefine the term "virtue- but placed it in the perspective of a realist. In a certain sense, perhaps Thrasymachus was right when...

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... life, and culture are affected by the laws of the regime and influence those laws. Aristotle believes the study of politics is the study of a whole way of life of people. I must acknowledge agreeing with this view. Aristotle was a promising student of Plato's but disagreed with some of his works on the Republic. Aristotle's criticism of the Republic is not fair because he fails to ... realize Plato's attempt to achieve perfect justice in a city. Aristotle believes that diversity within the city is necessary in order to obtain self-sufficiency because diversity provides ... the means for...

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