your own words as well as referring to the Republic‚ Book IV. In case of being corrupted by bad upbringing (441a)‚ what is Plato’s suggestion/ solution? Explain. Do you think his solution is reasonable? Expand. In book IV Adeimantus wonders that except guardians who have the most power everyone seems happy in the city. According to Socrates in the city there is not such a duty to make rulers or guardians happy in fact their job is to provide justice and make citizen happy and do any necessary
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Both Plato and Aristotle are extremely famous and credible philosophers who have very different views on this idea of Forms and the concept of knowledge. Plato first introduces this Theory of Forms‚ where he recognizes Forms to be the one source to all of knowledge. He describes and explains this theory in many of his works including Phaedo and the allegory of the cave. Then Aristotle criticizes and challenges this idea in his work‚ Nicomachean Ethics. While both philosophers have extremely persuasive
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Thomas Hobbes begins Leviathan with Book 1: Of Man‚ in which he builds‚ layer by layer‚ a foundation for his eventual argument that the "natural condition" of man‚ or one without sovereign control‚ is one of continuous war‚ violence‚ death‚ and fear. Hobbes’s depiction of this state is the most famous passage in Leviathan: [D]uring the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe‚ they are in a condition which is called Warre; and such a warre‚ as is of every man‚ against every
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Rulers seldom prioritize conditions which benefit those who are subservient to them‚ as personal advantage is a consistent ambition for those in power. In Plato’s Republic‚ when conversation leads to the description of an ideal city‚ Thrasymachus’ belief that rulers rule for their own advantage plays a key role in Socrates’ explanation of how to strategically educate an elite class of guardians whose virtue will be in governance and supervision of society. Education of the mind‚ body‚ and soul is
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HOW DO PLATO‚ LOCKE AND MACHIAVELLI ADDRESS THHOW DO PLATO‚ LOCKE AND MACHIAVELLI ADDRESS THE CONCEPTS OF POWER‚ AUTHORITY AND LEGITEMACY? Plato‚ Locke and Machiavelli deal with addressing the concepts of power‚ legitimacy and authority through illustrating constant contrasts and the underpinning of authority. Plato deals especially with the legitimacy of those in power focusing on the morality of politics and the need for the enlightenment of authority (Spragens‚ 1997:41)‚ but looking at the status
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Orissa Review January - 2010 The Republic Day of India: A Great National Festival Dr. Ratnakar Mohapatra freedom fighters those who fought for and sacrificed their lives for the independence of our motherland. Introduction The word Republic is used to denote that a country in which the supreme power is held by the people or their elected representatives (politicians) or by an elected or nominated President not by a permanent head like the King or queen of Britain. India is
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motivated to kill for personal gain however; it may be the uncertainty of someone else’s actions that forces them to choose the side of conflict. Hobbes blatantly states that for a modest person‚ it is
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While in exile‚ Niccoló Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes wrote about their political views on how to inaugurate a sturdy government. During each of their lives‚ they both contributed political philosophies that had differences and similarities. In Machiavelli’s The Prince and Hobbes’s The Leviathan‚ their philosophies are portrayed on how to maintain a stable government. Hobbes is recognized as the founder of the most later Western political philosophy in response to the social contract theory he established
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Thomas Hobbes contribution was the suggestion that the social order was made by human beings and therefore could be changed by human beings. Hobbes looked on the individual as selfish‚ concerned with self-preservation‚ searching for power‚ and (potentially at least) at war with others. For Hobbes‚ in the state of nature‚ there was a war of all against all and life is nasty‚ brutish‚ and short. Since individuals are rational‚ they agree to surrender their individual rights to the sovereign in order
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is not ruled by philosopher kings. This main feature of rulership is what distances Aristotle from Plato. Is it natural for there to be a group of philosophers ruling? Is it natural that these philosophers must be removed from private life? These are the questions Aristotle deals with in the second book of The Politics. In his book‚ Aristotle also details the role of women‚ slaves and foreigners. Plato would definitely be upset with his student Aristotle because of the main fact of his idea of rulership
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