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This 3 page paper examines the three theorists and how they are alike. Information about each author is relayed. Democracy is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of the ideas to emanate from these three theorists, who worked very closely together, were quite similar. Also, authors claim that up until about 1800, history was considered to be
nothing more than politics of the past (Lerner, Meacham, Wood et al., 1997). Clearly, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle did say much of the same things, but of course, they were
different theorists in their own right. Interestingly, Socrates never authored any books, but Plato and Aristotle certainly did and Socrates played a rather larger than life character, creating his Socratic
method that is still used to this day. In some way, some might equate the three as being members of a single philosophical movement because they were all interested
in politics. They broached other subject matter, but politics seems to have been a mainstay of these theorists. Still, when it comes to ideas about democracy for example, there is
disagreement between the authors. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is a regime that rejects form--is equivalent to anarchy (Saxonhouse, 1998). Anarchy is referred to not in terms of
the modern sense of the word, but in its purest definitive form. To Socrates and Plato, it meant being without rule (Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not
to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In such a soft regime where compulsion is banished, everyone just did as they pleased (Saxonhouse, 1998). It
is rather idealistic but impractical. Although many people want more freedom from government, many recognize that there needs to be at least some social control mechanism because not everyone respects
their neighbors. Aristotle has another take on democracy and what government should be like, and above all supported the idea of the golden mean. The golden mean is essentially
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