This is why man named these rules - laws. ... If we go back to Plato's Republic, to paraphrase Plato, he stated that each individual in a republic has a job to perform, a duty. ... We either succeed or fail in reciprocity by which one person recognizes another to form a community of rational beings". So we must realize that we as human beings determine the fate which gives us the freedom to conduct our lives in a civilized society and be governed by man made laws. ...

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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 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. ... Virtu is thus manliness, those qualities found in a "real man"" . ... On the other hand, Plato argues a ruler can never be unjust. ... The citizen, in order to create a strong republic, must yield to the inevitable realization that each man by himself is weak. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate