Plato's Perspective On Society: Article Analysis

Plato's perspective was developed most fully in the article. Plato's perspective on society was different than what most people in Athens believed. Plato thought that only a class of highly intelligent educated peoples should be able to make decisions for the city-state. In paragraph eight, the text states: "Plato believed that uneducated people should not have right to make important decisions for everyone" Each class did something to contribute to the city-state. In paragraph nine of the passage, the text states : "farmers grew the food for the republic, soldiers defended the republic, and a class of intelligent, educated philosophers ruled the republic." On the other hand, Pythagoras’ perspective was not fully developed. In the article,
there was only one sentence on Pythagoras, and it only described what contributions he made to the field of mathematics. In the sections about Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato, they each had two to three paragraphs on them, their lives, and what contributions they made to society. Pythagoras only had one sentence. The text never talked about what he thought, or what he believed. All the text says is “Pythagoras deduced multiplication tables as well as the Pythagorean theorem relating to right triangles.” Without Pythagoras, we would probably still be doing 2+2+2+2+2+2. Imagine having to do that with bigger numbers! To conclude, Plato’s perspective was most fully developed, and Pythagoras’ perspective was not.