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1. • • Plato grew up during the great Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta and, like many political philosophers, tried to find remedies for prevalent political injustice and decline.
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   5 days ago · political philosophy, branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments involved in political opinion. The meaning of the term political is itself one of the major problems of political philosophy.

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   What was Plato's political philosophy?

   • Plato: Wrote a lengthy dialogue The Republic in which he laid out his political philosophy: citizens should be divided into three categories. One category of people are the rulers: they should be philosophers, according to Plato, this idea is based on his Theory of Forms. His interpreters have debated the content of his political philosophy.

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   What type of philosopher is Plato?

   • Dialogue form suits a philosopher of Plato’s type. His use of dramatic elements, including humour, draws the reader in. Plato is unmatched in his ability to re-create the experience of conversation.

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   What is political philosophy?

   • Political philosophy, branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments involved in political opinion. The central problem of political philosophy is how to deploy or limit public power so as to maintain the survival and enhance the quality of human life.

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   What is Plato's philosophy of ethics?

   • Plato’s ethics could be best described as Virtue Ethics, a philosophical school of thought that is most often associated with Plato’s student Aristotle. What Virtue Ethics states is that the reasoning of what is moral is determined by the person (moral agent) rather than by rules or consequences.

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   Jul 27, 2024 · Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics secured the two Greek philosophers as two of the most influential political philosophers. Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them.

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   Jul 9, 2024 · Dialogue form suits a philosopher of Plato’s type. His use of dramatic elements, including humour, draws the reader in. Plato is unmatched in his ability to re-create the experience of conversation.

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   Jul 23, 2024 · Plato hoped to make Dionysius II into the philosopher-king—a powerful politician with philosophical training—that could create a perfect society as described in Plato’s dialogue The Republic. Dionysius II liked the idea of being a philosopher-king, but he enjoyed drunken parties and sex even more.

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   2 days ago · Plato’s Political Philosophy. Plato often mentions his dislike of Democracy and the fact that he considered it “mob rule.” This was not an unnatural position for him to take since it was the Democratic government of Athens that executed Socrates.

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   2 days ago · Political philosophy involves a general inquiry into normative matters and differs in this respect from political science, which aims to provide empirical descriptions of actually existing states. Political philosophy is often treated as a subfield of ethics.

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    Jul 12, 2024 · Consent is fundamental to social contract accounts of political legitimacy, arising as early as Plato’s Crito but most prominently in the 17th-century writings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Both Hobbes and Locke based the legitimacy of state authority on the consent of those ruled.