... they still eat. Although Plato's ideal republic is well thought out and could be beneficial, I do not believe it would work in today's world. Plato's ideal republic could not exist now because the socially educated people are supposed to create the republic. Not everyone is today's time period is socially educated, therefore the republic would fail. During Plato's time, he believes the republic is possible because of the possibility of majority socially educated ... people. This is due to the relationship between society and literature. Society influences the literature of its time and ...

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... .ac.uk/departments/philosophy/Greek-Plato/Background.html Background to Plato's Philosophy: The Political Background?. http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/Greek-Plato/Background.html Background to Plato's Philosophy: The Political Background?. http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/Greek-Plato/Background.html ClassicNotes: The Republic Book VIII?. http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/republic/summ8.html. Plato's Politics?. http://ishmael.nmh.northfield.ma.us/~sigma/plato/ Plato.Republic? translated by G.M.A Grube, revised ... by C.D.C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing Com...

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... Nearly every western philosophy flows directly through Plato'sRepublic.? It dealt with issues such as politics, psychology, anthropology, and equal rights for women. These issues were years before his time. All these being equal, perhaps Plato's greatest thoughts dealt with his ideas of a Model society. Let me elaborate. In part nine of Plato'sThe Republic,? Plato discusses the ideal society and how it would fair in ... today's modern world. His notion of the society degenerates into four imperfect forms of government, and he goes on to describe ... close to truth and righteousness as ...

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... without a social system, which can not function without politics, it proves Plato's claim that human beings are political animals. The importance of existing though freedom, knowledge, and enlightenment is accentuated by Plato on The Republic. He uses the cave allegory to highlight how human beings will not survive the darkness unless they act together and be led by a philosopher king who ... beings to interact across the globe. This is the amplification of the basic human need to belong and relate with others. Therefore the case that human beings have always had certain behavior that i...

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... it helps people perfect themselves. He is a realist and believes that if you give people the right to choose rulers they will naturally choose the richer and smarter class. The question at the center of Plato's The Republic is whether it is better to live justly or unjustly. To answer this question Plato constructs the perfectly just city that initially seems like a wonderful approach. However, there are problems with ... this ideal city. In his book, The Politics, Aristotle recognizes some of these weaknesses and suggests a better ... ...

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... by a Greek philosopher who lived around the 5th century and the 4th BC. So logically, the early development of literature cannot be separated from social activities and influenced by elements of culture and social circumstances. Sociology of literature has been the first time developed by Plato. In his document by the title "Ion and Republic", Plato discussed the relationship between the literary works and society. He believed that ... everything in this world was actually just an imitation of the highest fact in the world of thought (Damono, 2013:18). Nowadays, the sociological approac...

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... disorder. The goal of the educational system is to produce "serious citizens" who understand, agree with and maintain the social order put forth by Plato. This passage is a part of the Republic dealing with the unity of the Guardian class. The details of the Guardian lifestyle are put forth in order to explain the duties of that class. In unity, the Guardians must understand the importance of education in maintaining the Republic. Above all, the Guardians ... are charged with maintaining the educational system and protecting it from ... ...

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... is just as likely for them to gain wealth with a little hard work. As previously stated, however, the wealthy hold on to their wealth. The question which surrounds these facts is why does inequality exist in the first place? One explanation has derived from Plato's Republic. In the Republic Plato introduces the idea that society is a structured exchange of goods and services. What it says about stratification is that ... society's inequality is linked with human nature. This idea leads to the belief that inequality stems from human tendency to compete. social inequality is based ... ...

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... was largely based on his value of education. Humanists believed that proper learning equaled a proper being; a civilized society was built on the work of the most intelligent people. This view was not only held by humanists of the day but also by Plato (from the Republic). Because a proper renaissance man would have to study Greek and Latin writings, they also adapted numerous ancient philosophers" ideas. Since ... education during the renaissance encompassed a new grasp on virtues and morality, the even the clergy sought higher education in the humanities. However, not everybody saw th...

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... western democracies share these basic traditions, with varying degrees of emphasis. The two oldest traditions that Bellah and the others social scientists identified they chose to name as the Republican and the Biblical traditions. The first of these they apparently named as Republican because it espouses the values found in Plato's classic, "The Republic." The Biblical traditions embrace the common values found in Jewish and Christian Scripture. To some extent these ... would probably be shared by Islamic Scripture. The more recent traditions are those referred to as (1) the utilitaria...

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... his definition of justice when he says, "Minding one's own business". In Plato's Republic, Socrates was asked by his friend Glaucon what were his ideas of a perfect and just city and how it could be attained. Throughout the text, Socrates and his companions had been getting close to what "justice" ... who didn't buy into minding their own business is doing injustice. Another individual characteristic of minding one's business is the idea of no one having what is not theirs, and also that no one should have something taken that is rightfully theirs (433e). This statement ... to him, his ...

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