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An 8 page paper discussing the views of these two philosophers on what constitutes citizenship in the society and who is eligible for being considered to be a true citizen. In essence, Aristotle settled on two classes: the privileged and those who served them. Those who served had no true right to determine their own destinies at all. Aristotle's true citizen could be defined as one who in reality contributed little or nothing to the society aside from the grace of his presence and existence. Plato took a much more practical view of citizenship and the need for the participation of all individuals in at least some aspect of the larger society. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Republic, an intrinsic trait of the ideal state is utilitarianism. Conversely, Aristotles Politics seeks what is good for the individual before what is good for the community. As
a result of their contrasting ideologies, the Socratic model of citizenship portrayed in Platos Republic is at odds with the model Aristotle prescribes in Politics.
Plato Plato was an introspective individual, as it would seem any philosopher necessarily would need to be. He believed
that contemplation and conversation created the most reliable path to discovery of the nature of life and being, for they linked human beings with the vast divine realm of ideas.
It was this sea of ideas from which the soul sprang. In many ways, the body is only a housing structure for
the soul, one that can provide the sensory inputs required for the formation of new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it
is necessary, according to Plato, for things and events to be experienced in order to have knowledge of them. Knowledge of the soul is not the subject of discussion
here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The Republic and Platos position on citizenship.
It is from Plato that we get the theory of communism of property; Aristotles treatment of the theory gave modern communists their basis
of belief and ideology. What Plato proposed has little bearing on what Aristotle read into it, however. In Platos ideal state, the Guardians or Philosopher-Rulers (423e, 457a-b) were
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