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A 4 page overview of the lessons contained in “The Republic”. These writings have application in several different arenas of our modern life. They outline they basis of the existence of government itself. Through Plato’s extensive discussion of the concepts of ethics and morality we are able to ascertain that government is a man-made structure which imposes the wishes of the majority, or at least the most powerful, on the whole. Indeed, these writings provide the basis for ethics themselves. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Platos "The Republic" is one of the most frequently quoted sources of history. These writings have application in several different arenas of our modern life. They outline
they basis of the existence of government itself. Through Platos extensive discussion of the concepts of ethics and morality we are able to ascertain that government is a man-made
structure which imposes the wishes of the majority, or at least the most powerful, on the whole. Indeed, these writings provide the basis for ethics themselves, a basis which
was elaborated on extensively by Socrates and, consequently, by Plato in "The Republic" as Plato is credited with recording Socratean thought. Platos "The Republic" is, in fact, a series
of writings which he grouped into tetralogies, groups of four. In "The Republic" Plato elucidated his belief that even political theory must have a metaphysical basis. He believed
the human soul to be central to this basis. He recognized, however, that even the soul has two components, the components of reason and desire. To him reason
comprised the higher part of the soul and it must rule over the lower part comprised by desire if the "rule of the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was
to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestation of orderliness and moderation rather than the less appropriate desires which could gain prominence in the absence
of the constraint of reason. In effect, to Plato, the optimum development of the human being is directly tied to the interplay between reason and desire, an interplay which
although it occurred in the soul, was viewed as being directly related to societal structure. In his early dialogues Plato seeks
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