Oligarchy

True Rulers’ Education and Qualities as Described in Plato’s Republic Throughout Plato’s republic, the construction of the ideal city, the Kallipolis and its components are spoken about thoroughly, one of its main components are the guardians. The guardians are the highest and ruling class of the three classes of the Kallipolis; producers, auxiliaries and guardians. Guardians are chosen from the ranks of the auxiliaries (Plato, 2004, 101). The guardians’ education, upbringing, lifestyle, soul,…

The word demos (δῆμος) is a noun etymologically related to the word “διανέμω” or “to distribute;” the earliest written form is found in Homer’s poems (Odyssey and Iliad) meaning [a parcel of] land. Indeed, this was the original meaning of the word «δῆμος» in ancient Athens—a subdivision of land (Brand); though, after Cleisthenes’s reforms, it also came to mean country-district, like the boroughs in New York and the wards in Tōkyō. Though, in Athens a δῆμος was the smallest political…

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America established a Government. It several ways that Government is modeled after the government of Ancient Athens. This comparison is not one-hundred percent because Athens was a true Democracy and America is a Constitutional Republic. We will look at these two governments and how they are alike and different. Ancient Greece at one time was ruled by a select few. So new leaders decided the government would by one-hundred percent run by the citizens.…

Democracy is a government for the people and by the people; Laws and regulations are made in a way in which meets the needs and wants of the citizens in an appeasing manner. Such a utopian political systems sounds grand on paper; up-keeping its value is the same as trying to keep a white pair of suede shoes clean while walking in mud. Democracy is a fragile and intricate system that was great in the times of the ancients, but not good for the U.S. of A. This is the premise behind my argument of…

strive for honour above all else. They are then corrupted as ‘when riches are honoured in a city, virtue and the people are less honoured than the rich.’ This then creates a rich/poor divide, and the two aforementioned systems of democracy and oligarchy are created. Because the poor are greater in number, they will triumph over the rich, resulting in mob…

During the Second World War, Germany was ruled and run by Adolf Hitler a fascist dictator. Hitler is one of, if not the most recognisable dictator of his time. However decades after the second world war dictatorial government has become more common and more of a concern to democratic governments. A dictatorship is a form of government when an individual (dictator) has all the power over the whole country. The dictator makes the law and decisions for the whole country without the citizen’s…

The Walking Dead is a comic book based television series that first premiered October 31st, 2010 on AMC and is currently on its sixed season. The show is placed is a post Apocalyptic Zombie infested world. The story’s main plot is of struggling survivors trying to stay alive in a world that is overrun by Zombies, otherwise known as “walkers”. The story’s main characters or main group is lead by Rick Grimes. Rick Grimes, a sheriff, awakens from a hospital to find out the world has gone to hell;…

Rousseau’s, The Social Contract, describes his theory on how to establish a successful society with the problems that are commonly faced in a commercial society. He also aims to determine if, in a civil society, whether freedom is possible or not. Rousseau opens his book by stating, “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains” (1), meaning, that although man is born free in terms of nature, society places holds, or chains, on citizens, restraining them from their natural freedom and…

Democracy, a noun that describes the governmental dream, a government by the people. Ending the regular tradition of having monarchy as the intended government throughout ancient times. The official spark of democracy had happened during the time of ancient Greeks. Which happened to be the root and basis of this democratic way of government. Democracy trails back to 500 BCE in the time of the ancient Athens. Yet, was ancient Athens truly considered, democratic? With the Athenian’s government…

Within each historical era, there is a dominant form of rule, from tribal affiliations to individual kingdoms to vast empires to, now, democracies. In the twentieth and twenty first centuries there has been a pattern of democratic forms of government emerging all around the world. Asking whether all of these are in fact true democracies is inconsequential; rather one should instead focus on why this trend is occurring and question the validity of the spread of democracy as the prevalent form…