1. Socrates is now days considered the father of philosophy. Socrates was a famous philosopher that encouraged many people to reconsider what they hold to be true through many questions that helped the person guide themselves to their conclusion. Socrates also created the Socratic Method which is composed of a group of people debating a topic through a series of questions. Socrates taught many people but amongst one of the more famous of his student was Plato, Plato was one of Socrates’ greatest pupils that very much like Socrates also has a remarkable effect on democracy. In 399 B.C. Socrates was put to death for “not accepting the gods of Athens and corrupting the young” by the very thing he loved, Democracy.
2. The Republic by Plato was a written work of Plato’s political views and Socrates’ teachings. The main purpose of The Republic is to portray Plato’s political views and his version of an ideal society. The conversation is based off two fundamental questions: “What is justice and why should an individual act …show more content…
One of the positive elements that I see in Plato’s ideal society is his implication of the “Myth of Metals”. Liked this because of how everyone was put where they were meant to be and serve the common good with what they are good at. Another element that I agreed with is how everyone is to be trained accordingly to their job. The element that I thought was arguably the most crucial was that the military and the philosopher kings weren’t allowed to own anything or even have a family. A negative element that I found in Plato’s ideal society was how the weak or deformed were left to die in the wilderness, I partially disagree with this because people with physical or mental deformities have demonstrated time and time again to sometimes have very unique and special abilities that could even be considered super human, however I do believe that if the individual is incapable of contributing to society by a certain age then they have no place in
2. The Republic by Plato was a written work of Plato’s political views and Socrates’ teachings. The main purpose of The Republic is to portray Plato’s political views and his version of an ideal society. The conversation is based off two fundamental questions: “What is justice and why should an individual act …show more content…
One of the positive elements that I see in Plato’s ideal society is his implication of the “Myth of Metals”. Liked this because of how everyone was put where they were meant to be and serve the common good with what they are good at. Another element that I agreed with is how everyone is to be trained accordingly to their job. The element that I thought was arguably the most crucial was that the military and the philosopher kings weren’t allowed to own anything or even have a family. A negative element that I found in Plato’s ideal society was how the weak or deformed were left to die in the wilderness, I partially disagree with this because people with physical or mental deformities have demonstrated time and time again to sometimes have very unique and special abilities that could even be considered super human, however I do believe that if the individual is incapable of contributing to society by a certain age then they have no place in