According to this philosophy, democracy is not a capable government. ... Socrates had many pupils to his preaching, although he denied being a teacher of philosophy. ... He believed that one should give specific definitions of their beliefs. He had the ability to destroy any definition or proposition given to him, although he rarely gave any of his own. ... He spoke freely about his beliefs and ideas and had many listeners and pupils that agreed with his philosophy. ...

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Plato presents a contradictory and oversimplified definition of justice, and does so because he is trying to appeal to the majority of the population which is not enlightened. ... Clearly, Plato must provide a definition of justice which will reach those who are in the cave, because a conceptual definition of justice would be far too advanced for the audiences level of cognition. Plato defines the structures of the just individual so that we can better understand the contradictory definition of justice which he presents. ... That is the basic definition Plato uses to educate the mass unenlig...

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• Grade Level: High School

Politics it self strived to find idealistic methods of politics and philosophy in the history and so now we are living in the capitalism and democracy society. ... These global politics events substantiate the sentence "Politics is pragmatic occupation with little room for ideals, ideas and philosophy."" ... Politics holds economy of certain country and to be profitable position among the trade with other countries, policy of government must be practical rather than searching for their ideology or philosophy in it. ... Government cannot maintain these broad situation and issues with one ide...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thomas Hobbes, the famous author of "Leviathan", (1651), was a theorist on the law, the state of nature and the concept of social contract, and as such, one of the founders of modern political philosophy. ... Having taken the opposite philosophy of Hobbes, he can still return to the original and not a reflection on the continued functioning of a democratic society based on the Social Contract (1762) in which the sovereign people organize collective life. ... The definition of absolute monarchy, is a kind of regime, where the monarch has all the power and where people cannot...

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With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the concomitant demise of communism in the twentieth century which shed abroad a spirit of triumphalism through the West, came the euphoric impression that, "history had finally ended with the universal victory of Western liberal democracy as the final form ...

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There aren't any actual definitions coined by Tocqueville for the 'key' terms he uses, so in "Democracy in America", we get more of a complex, yet focused, personified picture of America as a democratic system, or, as Ryan puts it, "a film rather than a photograph () a narrative of the movement that generated democracy". ... A crucial specification in the understanding of Tocqueville's philosophy of democracy in this particular context is that when Tocqueville talks about equality, he does not mean "equality of income, education or anything in part...

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• Grade Level: Graduate