What is significant about this contest is that, in it, Socrates describes his personal view of a "perfect world," and why justice is so important in the process of creating a civilized world. ... Socrates responds, first of all, that if a man lives by education, courage, and self-mastery, he should have no trouble making a decent living in the modern world. ... After all of Socrates's arguments about justice, Socrates concludes his entire debate by describing what he calls "a perfect State." ... Finally, Socrates points out that, in his perfect State, philosophers will always have the a...

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Plato and Aristotle are considered to be "Founding Fathers" of modern political theories. ... The main focus of Plato is a perfect society. ... Aristotle, unlike Plato, is not concerned with perfecting society. ... Rather than produce a blueprint for the perfect society, Aristotle suggested, in his work, The Politics, that the society itself should reach for the best possible system that could be attained (Hacker 71). ... 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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Social Contract Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacque Rousseau are the thinkers of "modern solution". Unlike classics and reformation thinkers, for whom the Bible was the main important source, thinkers of modern solution followed new progressive methods and new way of thinking, which appeared at that period. Modern thinkers rejected classical philosophy as unrealistic, cosmological. ... He is the first thinker who moved away from the classics and reformation thinkers and came to "modern solution" using critics and more modern, rational, empirical methods, criticized religion, morality...

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The Greek ekklÃsia which represent the model of direct democracy was no more possible during the modern age. ... If democracy is intended as the modern theory of the state, then it is better to call it liberalism (Bobbio: 1988, 25). ... According to his point of view the ancient Greek model of government could not be used in modern states, since this kind of democracy is only possible in small town (Mill: 1861, 217-218). ... One of the main point in this book, which is really modern and to some extent anticipates the Marxist doctrine, is that Rousseau thinks that is not human beings to be co...

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Humanism and Renaissance Europe: A Transition into the Self Throughout The Middle Ages, European society gradually progressed with minor advancements and various developments in religion, while simultaneously experiencing a number of international calamites. The Hundred Year's War between Engla...

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