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Socrates Ideas In Book VIII Of Plato's Republic

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Book VIII of Plato’s “Republic” revolves around Socrates’ ideas of a flawed state. Written as a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon, the book begins with an explanation of the nature of a true state and true human as discussed in the previous books. Consequently, the dialogues continues with a discussion on four types of governments. Each form of government originates from a certain type of human character. This paper seeks to determine the factors that lead from an oligarchy to a democratic state, then later to the rise of a tyranny in that systematic order. Socrates believes an oligarchy government rises from a peoples’ desire to accumulate rich because such a state chooses its ruler depending on an assessment of wealth (245). Eventually,
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