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Discussion Of Plato's Claims In The Republic

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true to this day. Having specific branches of governments that specialize in certain things. Not only in the U.S has this been true when expanding to all regions of the world it is evident that this has played apart
3.Aristotle refutes many of Plato's claims in the Republic.While refuting them he builds a stronger ideology that is used in modern politics.
4. The original text of Aristotle's Politics are limiting because the eight different books written as one may not be in the order of which he wrote them in. This limits the knowledge of Aristotle's thought process and connections within the text.
B. (Carnes, “Politics”) To endure, a democracy, like an oligarchy, needs both the rich and the poor. A democracy that destroys the well-off becomes unstable. Where the people have authority over the laws, demagogues tear …show more content…

Counter intuitive to what Plato says Gives a different perspective. What this is saying goes against what Socrates believes. As stated Socrates believed that the exclusion of the social classes would be envisioned in The Republic However Aristotle believes that the division of classes is what drives the government. Pre Socratic philosophers giving the earliest form of what turns out to be a modern form of republicans fighting for the difference in social classes and the Modern Democrats trying to stabilize the gap of social classes.
2. Can we argue that Aristotle is right when analyzing and understanding that they at the time were the superpower of the world so we are able to connect this to having experience in this realm of politics. So when analyzing the Ideology of Aristotle's politics it is understandable that this form of politics be continued seeming as it has had previous success.
3. Aristotle's quote on having the government everywhere in the state and allowing the constitution to be the government. Makes for the distribution of rules fair and evenly. By having a written set of formed rules allows for all citizens to follow

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