1. Socrates and Virgil
... to the state itself. His ideas and values are focused and based around the polis, the state that he lives in. As well as Socrates, Virgil expresses his views of the individual to the state through his heroic character Aeneas in the Aenied. In both books, the individual is shown to be affected by the polis, and the individual and what he brings to ... and that material things are not needed. Aeneas is presented with the what will become the most powerful state in the world. And in the Aenied, the question of what is the relationship between a person's responsibility to his country and hi...
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