The New Republic

Mistakes and misjudgements by Louis XVI explain the downfall of absolute monarchy in 1792 to a certain extent. Source one by Ruth Scurry agrees to a certain extent as it describes Louis mistake of his flight to Varennes. On the other hand sources two and three disagree and blame other factors for downfall of the monarchy such as the economy, war and the republican movement. To a certain extent, the mistakes and misjudgements of Louis XVI explains the fall of the monarchy in 1792. Ruth Scurry…

Socrates expresses that,“…is it because of the spirited part…that we call a single individual courageous (Plato 99).” It can be found if one has courage in the spirited part. In the state, the soldiers represent courage. They fight and defend for their city. They obey the rulers and are their allies. To ensure that the rulers and soldiers will fight for their city; Socrates proposed a noble lie to maintain the city’s justice. He will try to persuade the rulers and soldiers that they do not…

The legacies left by Plato and Machiavelli, inspired and profoundly shaped modern governing. Their beliefs and views on how a ruler should run a government, constructed today’s political atmosphere. Despite the differences between Plato and Machiavelli 's visions on an idealistic utopian society, they both necessitate a ruler who possess the highest extent of reason within the tripartite division. However, their contrasting agendas they set for their ideal rulers, forged conflicting definitions…

Three Messages From Republic 1-5 In depth analysis of three important messages from Plato’s Republic Philosophical texts are very important to humanity. They bring us to question what exactly what we are doing with our day to day lives. How the world affects us to bring change to our routines and why exactly this change is good or bad. Plato and Socrates are no different. Much of Socrates’ work is through the written texts of Plato, despite many historians believing that the dialogues of…

Machiavelli and Socrates Would Not Support the Same Prince While both Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli grew up in times of political turmoil and economic instability, Socrates would not be supportive of Machiavelli’s concept of a good prince. Their concepts of an effective ruler are completely different – the extent of their similarities are their experiences with political fragmentation and war. Both aim to establish a long-lasting government, but Machiavelli believes a ruthless ruler without…

In my essay I will first sate the traits of an ideal knight and then discuss the characteristics of an ideal knight as represented in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight while comparing and contrasting them to the characteristics of ideal knights in traditional texts. Quoting examples from the text, I will then discuss, analyze and come to a conclusion if Sir Gawain has been represented as an ideal knight in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. During the Middle Ages and in many…

A question gone unanswered by the man who promised an explanation, “What actually does makes a republic tick?”. Joseph Epstein, in his very poorly named article “Machiavelli Explains What Makes Republics Tick”, does not actually talk about a republic, but instead ecompasess the quinecential Machiavellian style in order to give readers a proper understanding of the classic era without reading the work firsthand. Rather than focusing solely on the content of Machiavelli’s masterpieces, he instead…

Both Canada and the USA have governments that seem to work quite well, amidst their differences. While the USA is a republic, Canada is a constitutional monarchy, and both are based on the ideas of democracy. However, they are different in many ways, and each government has it’s share of better methods than the other. For example, the USA has a definite term of office set for the president, 4 years, so that the president will know when he is done, and elections do not come as a surprise to the…

will see some of the implications and consequences of socialism and democratic systems, as well as different aspects of each political culture. * The current Constitution of Venezuela, adopted on december 15th 1999 , establishes that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela becomes a social and democratic state of law and justice. This means that "holds as superior values of its legal system, life, freedom, justice, equality, solidarity, democracy, social responsibility and, in general, the…

The significance of temporality is explained in two very different ways by Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The limitations of states and the fundamental driver of what is essentially the human decay that amounts to the dissolution of the state. Both are aware that political systems decay over time. They attempt to dissolve the problem of preserving the political system over time. Their views on history shape their solutions, however both think very differently. Each is aware that…