Timocracy

these constitutions that Plato describes is a timocracy. This city is only second-best to the ideal just city. Instead of being ruled by wise guardians, they are ruled by people who are ruled by the spirited part of their soul. This part of the soul lusts for desire, victory, and honor. The rulers are typically warriors or generals; Sparta is a good example of a timocracy. The civil war and a reorganization of soul transform the city into a timocracy. The city is divided between those who wish to

alter the law to give way and accommodate to the materialistic lust of its citizens. As a result of this new found appreciation for money, the governors rework the constitution yet again to restrict political power to the rich only. That is how a timocracy becomes an

Plato states, “Therefore, isn’t it appropriate for the rational part to rule” (Republic IV 440e-442a). What it means for one part of the soul to rule the others is for the entire soul to pursue the desires of that part lusts for. When a soul is ruled by spirit the entire soul's desire is to achieve honor. In a soul ruled by appetite, the entire soul wishes to fulfill these appetites, such as food, material goods, or wealth. In a just soul, the soul’s function is entirely toward fulfilling whatever

The famous Greek philosopher Plato stated: “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” Over the years, Plato has indeed been regarded as a very wise man. In fact, he made a statement about the evolutionary cycle of governments, predicting a specific pattern of progression. In a span of 40 years, from 1774 to 1814, the government of the European nation of France followed Plato’s prediction almost exactly. Over the course of the 40 year period, France

The Republic is a series of books written by a Greek philosopher called Plato. He defines justice and by this he shows how injustice unfolds in society within its form of government in a dialogue of Socrates. In Book VIII of the Republic, he describes and explains, besides aristocracy, 4 types of regimes or forms of government. Before describing each of them, let me explain a little about the mentality of Plato for better understanding. Socrates thought that to understand politics, one must understand

In The Republic, Plato presents a dialogue of Socrates, in which he seeks to uncover truths about what constitutes a just society, and what kind of men would rule such a society. As such a society would require a sound government, Plato, through Socrates, presents five possible types of governments, which involve varying levels of liberty and justice. Although the arguments demonstrate that aristocracy is the ideal form of government, all forms of government have fatal flaws that lead to continual

positions in their respective City-states. While Socrates overturned Thrasymachus ' definition of justice, the discussion turned to government and justice in Book VIII, when Socrates spoke of the eventual decay of government into Tyranny. In describing Timocracy, a form of government in which property ownership is required for participation in government and in which honor is the ruling principle and the man with which it corresponds, Socrates

looking at the pros and cons of democracy and oligarchy, their strengths could have become their weaknesses. However, Plato described a different form of politics, one that he and Socrates thought of as ideal; the closest resemblance was called “timocracy”. Democracy Democracy was the rule of the citizens. The city of Athens was the most well-known for this form of politics, and most other societies did not find anything good to say about it. The king of a foreign land said, “I find it astonishing

Plato introduced five kinds of people and also cities and developed their sequence of going. Those are aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. This paper would focus mostly on the oligarchy cities and oligarch person, specifically, the similarities and differences between them. First I will define the oligarchy city and oligarch person. In an oligarchy city, the rich rules and the poor are ruled. Rulers have to be assessed and have certain amount of wealth by law. The rulers are

In general, the constitution is the fundamental law in the legal system of the country. The constitution defines the basis system and tasks of the state and the basic norms of human behavior. Constitution is not having some but the product of the fight against the feudal autocracy, strengthen the achievements. Before the modern constitution, each state will affairs and social affairs within a country’s final decision are all in the hands of the feudal monarchy. From my view the constitution is a