The main focus of Plato is a perfect society. He creates a blueprint for a utopian society, in his book The Republic, out of his disdain for the tension of political life (Hacker, 24). ... Essentially what Plato wants to achieve is a perfect society. Aristotle, unlike Plato, is not concerned with perfecting society. ... Plato chose to tell the reader of his Republic how men would act and what their attitudes would be in a perfect society (Hacker 81). ...

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Justice is the underlining truth in the Republic of Plato. However the question is, is Plato's idea of a just society in fact the "truth-? ... Throughout the Republic Plato mentions the structure of every man's soul and how it ultimately has power over the individual. ... It is hard for me to believe the potency of the "Good- in Plato's ideal Republic when it does not even have the effectiveness to initiate it own structure. ... Plato tries to control the soul of man with his Republic, but fails to recognize that man's nature cannot be restrained to the poi...

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By the end of Book I of the Republic, Thrasymachus has been pretty much silenced. ... You might want to notice that here, among other things, we are getting our first major hint that the Republic, is an expanded and revised version of the Apology. ... The problem being posed is a very tall order, and you should remember that the rest of the Republic is a detour and device to answer this question, as well as Thrasymachus" position. ... In fact Plato will in a sense deduce or derive a just state from a theory of the nature of the soul. ... Plato, however, does not move directly into offering thi...

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The main focus of Plato is a perfect society. He creates a vision for a utopian society, in his book The Republic. ... Plato's Utopia consists of three class systems. ... Plato's Utopia is different. ... Plato chose to tell the reader of his Republic how men would act and what their attitudes would be in a perfect society. ...

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There are three questions that must be answered when talking about the tyrant that is described in Plato's "Republic-. ... In my own opinion I feel Socrates or Plato, whichever is really talking, is persuasive for reasons other than answering the questions at hand correctly. ...

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They are Plato, Cicero, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Charles Montesquieu. ... Plato was the man to think up the republic form of government. ... Plato's republic would be very orderly and everyone would have a place and need to stick to their job to make the republic function well. Cicero believed in the Roman republic which was made up of ideas and forms of monarchy, aristocary, and democracy. ... Montesquieu refined the ideas of Plato and Cicero into three basic points. ...

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The main focus of Plato is a perfect society. He creates a blueprint for a utopian society, in his book The Republic, out of his dislike for the tension of political life (Hacker 24). ... Essentially what Plato wants to achieve is a utopia. Aristotle, unlike Plato, is not concerned with perfecting society. ... Plato chose to tell the reader of his Republic how men would act and what their attitudes would be in a perfect society (Hacker 81). ...

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It is germaine here to bring up the ancient thinker Plato. In the Republic, Plato outlines many ideas which parallel Machiavelli's. ... Aditionally (and this comes straight from the Republic; the idea of a coupling, a marriage, inherent both in Plato's words and his way of presenting the ideal society, which exits between the governor and the governed), there are the gender assignments female and male to the people and prince, respectively. ... Now, historically, Machiavelli lived in and lived for his beloved republic of Florence his whole life. ... to survive in a newly conquere...

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Are we free? What determines how we live and who chooses to decide the outcome of our lives? If we believe in fate, then things happen because they are meant to happen, it's all part of a big plan. Thus, how free are we to decide our fate? If we believe in "free will" then we are in charge of our d...

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Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. ... On the other hand, Plato argues a ruler can never be unjust. ... Virtu is characterized by its flexibility because the ruler is given the prerogative to mold it in consonance to a given situation whereas "virtue" is more rigid, as Plato would required the just ruler to behave the same all the time. ... This practice is essential in keeping the orderly nature of the republic. ...

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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. ... According to Aristotle, there were three true forms of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and constitutional republic. ...

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Whereas Plato believed that human kind was virtuous by nature, with evil men being but a small faction of the species, Machiavelli felt that it was the virtuous who were a minority in a world of evil men. ... Marius in the late Roman republic or the killing of the Russian royal family during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. ...

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At several points, the Politics looks back to the conception of the highest human good worked out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the concluding chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics (X.9) looks forward to the Politics, culminating in a list of questions about political systems which corresponds reasonably well to the questions he addresses in the Politics, as the following chart indicates: Outline of the Politics Questions in Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17-24 Book I: types of communities: the city, the household; household management Book II: critical survey of proposed and actual constitutio...

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Most normal individuals in the modern world would assume that all books written, not published, by man are based on either a portion of the author's imagination, an event (biased or non-biased) in either history or during the life of the author, a straight-out autobiography, or a generalized biograp...

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Many critics regard "King Lear" as the greatest, and most tragic, of William Shakespeare's plays; indeed, some claim that it is the most tragic play ever written. And yet, it is difficult to see why we should regard "King Lear" as a tragedy for the King is basically a pathetic old man, vain and foolish, rash in his judgment and incapable of controlling his emotions. This characterization seems to preclude viewing Lear on the Aristotelian model of a tragic hero, as someone raised above the ordinary level of humanity, except in the most conventional sense of his social status. Moreover, in ...

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