... , many did not agree with Socrates teachings. He was accused of corrupting the youth in Athens and sentenced to death. One of Socrates most famous students, Plato, established a second school of thought. Flourishing around 400 B. C., Plato contradicted his teacher in that he left many writings, his most famous being The Republic. He believed that a higher world of unchanging forms and ideas existed. If ... a person knew these forms, then he knew the truth. These things, however, could only be achieved by a mind that had been properly ... trained. One of his idea forms was his vision of ...

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... for Frangelico liqueur that clearly appeals to the desires and temptations of the people reading it. In Plato's Republic, he argues that politicians in a democracy to the same thing in order to gain votes. Democracy is the rule of the people. Many examples of democracies exist in the world today and most people tend to think that a country ruled by a democracy is the most enlightened and good. But how ... successful are our modern democracies? Not completely is the answer, ... but is this because they don't actually do what they set out to do or because of inherent flaws in the ideal of...

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... lived from 384 B.C. to 322 B.C. He spent twenty years studying and working at Plato's Academy. Plato was an influential philosopher and scholar that made a tremendous impact on Aristotle. Many of Plato's ideologies were presented in Aristotle's works. Aristotle demonstrated his political views in The Politics and The Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle stated, "Every state is a community of some kind, and ... government: monarchy, aristocracy, and constitutional republic. The perverted forms of these were tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy. The difference between the last two was not that democ...

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