Ever since man begun to have the ability to think and have reason, we have always searched for answers on many things and asked questions about everything that is around us, whether be it the stars in the night skies or the ground that we are standing on, the planet that we live in or the life that we have now. These questions have always led us to more questions about the world and the reason for our existence. According to Aristotle, Man by nature is a Political Animal (Jowett, 2011, p. 3), these ]words gave credence to man’s long time quest to find answers on their questions about the mystery behind the emergence of the state and why man always has the tendency to form groups and unify themselves and create tribes or clans or even larger city states and to live and die for it. This
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It is important to note however that the prevalent thought of the classical Period was that of the natural or the innate capacity of human not by his talents or skills learned by his or her innate human nature. That is reason why most classical thinkers always mention the word natural or the word human nature in their Political thoughts because it is their basis in establishing their ideas. During the Classical Period, the line that separates the state and the society was not yet clearly established and that it seems as if the two are intertwined. On his book the Republic, Plato gave the researcher a glimpse of what is the prevailing concept of the State and of the Society during the Classical Period of Political thought. According to Plato, the state or the government’s role is to promote virtues that would help the people lead to the good life and one of the ways in promoting these virtues such as wisdom, piety, or the most important one Justice, is to educate
It is important to note however that the prevalent thought of the classical Period was that of the natural or the innate capacity of human not by his talents or skills learned by his or her innate human nature. That is reason why most classical thinkers always mention the word natural or the word human nature in their Political thoughts because it is their basis in establishing their ideas. During the Classical Period, the line that separates the state and the society was not yet clearly established and that it seems as if the two are intertwined. On his book the Republic, Plato gave the researcher a glimpse of what is the prevailing concept of the State and of the Society during the Classical Period of Political thought. According to Plato, the state or the government’s role is to promote virtues that would help the people lead to the good life and one of the ways in promoting these virtues such as wisdom, piety, or the most important one Justice, is to educate