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trafficking, murder of any competitor and extortion of politicians. The man is an unjust person by nature but is viewed as just. These are the types of argument of Glaucon in comparison to Socrates on justice and injustice. Glaucon makes arguments for injustice and its perks and Socrates’ arguments for justice. An investigation of the nature of…

Thucydides and Plato we see that, while both highly regarded philosophers, the methods they use to teach are vastly different. Thucydides preferred an empirical style in the way that he chose to approach his studies of human nature and believes that justice is determined by strength, where Plato was said to have a more normative claim and deems that an individual’s constitution dictates what is right. In my reading of these two philosophers, both present their opinions through stories which…

provides a solution to the major challenges of preventing the private tyrant from abusing or hurting other people in civil society. Therefore, Socrates commitment to the absolute morality and truth of the Forms overrides Glaucon’s cynical view of justice, which illustrates the ability of the just man to live a pleasant life by subduing the hydra and the lion through human reason and…

From The Republic by Plato and Politics by Aristotle, come two very different perspectives of what a state should look like. This includes different structures of power, different favored types of government, and different types of classes. Where Plato bases his ideas off of a faux society, Aristotle uses examples of past civilizations to discuss several different theories and explanations. Though Aristotle was a student of Plato, he had a very different approach to the ideal state than his…

between a private good and a public good. The play teaches also that the law and justice are not always correlated which furthers the tension between private justice and justice for the city. While both arguments are strong, Creon’s argument that the good of the city is more important than justice for a single individual is most correct. Despite the disconnect between the law and justice however, law is essentially justice for the entire political community. The rule of law…

In Plato, Republic, Book VII, the core of the book revolves around justice and its implications from both an individual and collective perspective. Plato does not have Socrates argue that justice requires getting everyone out of the cave because in actuality, there are two parts to justice and the cave: the truth and the false. According to Plato, people often live in illusion. Illusions appeal to sensible people and their senses whereas reality, does not function with reason alone, it includes…

Abstract John Rawls in his work “Theory of Justice” explains that in order to have complete social justice in society we need a state which does no discrimination and provides some basic standard of living and looks after those who don’t have the sufficient means to support themselves. In his work Rawls has supported the idea that the state should provide the basic standard of living to all. Introduction Welfare state is a concept of state in which the government takes an active role in…

Harmony, word originally derived from the Latin harmonia meaning agreement and the Greek harmós which means to fit together or joint while the word diversity is from the Old French diversité means difference. Therefore, harmony within diversity in other words means to fit together despite the differences. According to Martin Luther King Jr. " We are caught in an escapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affect one directly, affects all indirectly." It is…

In aphorisms 4 and 6, Nietzsche discusses his rather blunt perception of what he thinks of Socrates’ belief in reason, the Socratic equation, and the nature of dialecticism and those who practice it. After a rather painstaking analysis of his critique, Nietzsche’s disliking for Socrates can be attributed to what he believes to be dialecticism and how Socrates defended himself in court almost 2000 years before. The entire premise Nietzsche bases his argument on is a concept he calls “Will to…

NAME: MWANIKI EMMANUEL KARIUKI MATRIC NO: 15AH02458 PROGRAMME: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COURSE: ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGHT COURSE CODE: POS 211 An Appraisal of Plato’s Theory of the Tripartite Society in the Republic and Its Practical Application in Nigeria’s Democracy 1.1. ABSTRACT The purpose of this term paper is to extensively look at the theory of the tripartite society as pro-founded by Plato in his classic book The Republic. The methodology used to tackle the question is critical…