According to Glaucon, in a state of nature men inflict and suffer injustice without restraint. ... In the process Socrates must also supply a positive definition of justice that will resist scrutiny. ... Plato will answer this question by showing (or claiming to show) that justice is not arbitrary and conventional; that it is not something external to nature and based upon force and constraint. ... 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 this theory of the nature of the sou...

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Now if this is the definition of imperialism then the United States is most definitely an Imperialist Nation. ... The imperialistic nature of the United States can be seen in her past. ... The United States from is imperialistic past upon south and Central America, to its corruption of other cultures and governments, to its financial aids and threats of military force has placed its imperialistic nature upon the world. ...

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He himself was a Catholic, but he was influenced by the Protestant movement which flourished during his lifetime and like most Protestants he held a very cynical view of human nature; he is famous for arguing that humans are not superior but inferior to beasts. ... In his Essays, his most famous work, he took himself as his object of study, and attempted to "assay" (weigh) his own nature and opinions as a model to study all humankind. ... It could either mean a police force commanded by the authority, or it could mean any person under the rule of the authority who...

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