Through their works that will be discussed herein, it will be evident that Plato's, Aristotle's and Socrates' works are still the ultimate basis of western society. ... However, the works of Aristotle as well as Plato are evidence that Socrates had great influence on the western world's evolution since Plato was his student and Aristotle was Plato's student thus the knowledge was passed. ... In addition, Plato's most important works according to Duiker & Jackson (2012) included the Laws and the Republic. According to Plato, democracy is a good form of government (...

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Time spent not pushing the republic toward success as he sees it would be time spent ultimately pushing the republic closer to succumbing to failure. ... When thoughts of "justice" were pondered in Ancient Greece, early students of Socrates accepted actions that were to the benefit of friends and detriment of enemies as the standard definition of justice (Plato I.332b). ... If freedom is a republic's greatest possession, then ingratitude is the republic's most superior defense against those who will make attempts to steal it away. ... What we ultimately see in Machiavelli&#...

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