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    aristocracy led by a philosopher king who is wise and makes the decision for all and his soul is considered to be that of gold. Aristocracy stage leads to timocracy which would is the new generation of leaders and their souls are not considered to be made of gold as the philosopher king would be in the previous stage leading to a stronger lust for wealth. Timocracy then goes to oligarchy which leads to wealth and poverty, while the wealthy write laws to help them continue to be wealthy. Oligarchy then degrades

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    about important Persian kings, who, in his own way, used as a means to disguise his own thoughts. Herodotus used the Persians to portray two of his major themes. First of all, the theme of Timocracy versus Plutocracy. By way of his choice of kings to talk about, Herodotus makes it clear that he believes Timocracy is the most favorable way of ascending a thrown. He admires Persian lineage and denounces Athenian monetary manipulations. He sees Persian Kings as rightful heirs because of the

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    Timocracy emerges from an aristocracy when people taking less consideration for music and poetry than they ought to, which then leads to neglect in physical training, and, therefore, results in their young becoming less educated. Consequently, this leads to

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    D’Angelo, Marcus Ancient History VII Would Polybius, Aristotle, and Plato agree with Kaplan? In Kaplan’s writing, Was Democracy Just a Moment, it demonstrated his view on governments, ancient and current. He believed that the best constitution was an absolute kingship, but mentioned that the citizens had to be careful and not let this king indulge into his appetite and become corrupt. He thought that a democracy was degenerate and always brought out the worst in people. He exhibited what Thomas

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    Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher thought to have been born in 428 B.C, he was the son of Ariston and was brought up in an aristocratic way of life. Because of his social status and connections he obtained through his family, it was thought he would inevitably end up involved in Athenian political life, but this did not happen to such an extent, a friend of his, Socrates had an enormous effect on him and why he did not end up with a prominent role in politics. He explains this in his Seventh

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    Democracy The word democracy literally means "the government of the people" (demos). Plato, of course, is using the term to refer to the democracy of Athens, a small city-state where every adult male citizen was a member of the Assembly, and so had a voice in governmental policy. But in Athens more than half of the population were slaves or foreign residents, neither of whom had any civic rights. Hence, the defects

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    Socrates Unjust Man

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    subjected to his desires. Socrates goes on to explain an unjust man by comparing different societies and shows how they all start from a just society. However, they become corrupted. This is explained while Socrates describes the transformation from a Timocracy government to an Oligarchy. Socrates explains how if a person were to “proceed further into money-making, the more they value it,” and the more they would be enslaved by it. Furthermore, Plato saves the worst society for last, Tyranny. Some people

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    Every once in a while it is a good idea to take a step back and question why we believe the things that we do. Reading Plato's Republic reminded me of this, and forced me to re-evaluate my belief that everybody should be entitled to a democracy. Previously, I could not understand why such hostility came from other countries, especially Iraq, on the good and honorable act of the U.S. by freeing Iraq from a dictator. Additionally, Iraq is finally able to become a democracy, where the people decide

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    In what might be the most famous and recognizable image of Plato’s Republic, the message of the allegory of the cave is present not only in Book VII, but throughout the entire dialogue. Plato-as-Socrates uses the allegory to express his views on philosophy’s role in his city of speech which is later shown more deeply with the five regimes in Book VIII. The cities in the five regimes undergo a degradation as philosophy moves further and further away from the ruler; which also mirrors the cave. Plato

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    In Plato's The Republic, we are introduced to four forms of government, their causes, their reign, and their downfall. These four forms of government are timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny. The most intriguing and well-known form to us is perhaps democracy with its rights and said "freedoms". It is best to examine the fine details of the institution that we as Americans, and most importantly as humans, get the privilege to enjoy. Democracy has its humble beginnings, time to govern, and

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