Timocracy

possessions but common to all of the men as well as marriage arrangements eugenics. Aristocracy would give the people of Athens equality. In total Plato and the group of intellectuals came up with a five types of regimes including, Aristocracy, Timocracy (rule of the honorable), Oligarchy (rule of wealth), Democracy (rule of the people), and Tyranny (rule of the strongest). Their conclusion being that aristocrat is just, the tyrant unjust. Therefore just makes a man happy, injustice makes him unhappy

Throughout history, there have been many distinct societies that have each had a different type of government. Those various forms of government have been accompanied by personalization. No single society in the course of human history has ever looked or acted the same since each particular civilization has its own demands, obligations and disputes. Therefore, every community will have its own unique way of governing their general public. Both Plato’s The Republic and Jean-Jacque Rousseau’s The Social

Machiavelli was truly a one of a kind man in his time period. His rough outlook on life due to his harsh experiences with the government was entirely different than those in and before his time. Machiavelli believed in living in the present and was a straight forward realist. Socrates on the other hand had essentially devoted his life to finding a universal truth. He considered that to be his contribution to society. When it came to government and the structure of society Machiavelli and Socrates

It is clear that Plato’s opposed the concept of democracy. In fact he ‘ranks both timocracy and oligarchy as favourable to democracy and maintains that only tyranny is a less preferable form of government’ (Plato 1955 ). John Wild believed “The most serious charge against Plato from a modern point of view is that he is an enemy of democracy.” (Thorson 1963) In his book “the republic” he describes what he perceives to be the ideal state, in so doing he lays out his criticisms of the Athenian democracy

Throughout history, society has often created division within gender roles and gender relations, typically at the expense of women. In Plato’s Republic, Plato devises his plausible ideal city, Kallipolis, which holds a very different notion of these gender roles and relations from the standard held in the early ages. It is quite progressive as both, men and women, are able to uphold the same positions at work and have access to the same education. This concept enhances and strengthens the unity of

Plato's four political regimes can be closely related to several of my classes throughout my four years of high school. His four regimes were Aristocracy/Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny. The classes that I chose had a significant impact on me and they showed me how to adapt to different ways that a class can be taught. Each class relates to one of Plato's four regimes yet only one varied throughout the year in terms of how they were taught. The class closely relating to an aristocracy

and a disadvantage to be unjust” (Jowett 2). He believed that one shows justice by fulfilling their role and by giving to the city what they owe. In book VIII, Socrates discusses four types of constitutional regimes that he finds unjust. These are timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny. Each government fails and passes on to the next one. Socrates explains that in the final regime, that is, tyranny, people experience the worst form of injustice. The tyrant lives a life that is more painful than

Plato and Aristotle are philosophers that looked at the question of the best regime and came to two different conclusions. Which presents the question, who had a better argument on the best regime for a city? Both Aristotle and Plato present valid arguments on the best regime, Plato’s theory argues for Aristocracy as the best regime because it would have a philosopher as its ruler. Furthermore, Aristotle builds on Plato’s approach as he identified more than what the best regime is, he actually tried

Aristotle is a famous Greek philosopher who wrote many books throughout his lifetime unfortunately, most where lost. The works that did survive were mostly lecture notes or ideas that were not suppose to be published, which is why they can be hard to follow. Aristotle was an empirical scientist who believed that true wisdom comes from examining an object rather than trying to look beyond it. In Aristotle’s book Nicomachean Ethics book VII and IX he discusses friendship. Stating why we need friendship

In the Republic, the city-soul analogy serves as the starting point from which Plato builds the dialogue, and its implications phantasmically loom in the background of the work’s political and philosophical deliberations. At the end of Republic II, Socrates, in an effort to impugn Thrasymachus’ commendation of injustice, asserts that “a just soul and a just man will live well, and an unjust one badly.” (Republic 353e) Socrates therefore believes that the just live better lives than those who are