Democracy in Plato's the Republic

Democracy in the Republic In the Republic of Plato, democracy is causing controversial issues in the criticism of Socrates. Soul theory explains the controversy since soul shows that it is divided into three parts: rationality, spirit, and appetite are ranked separately. The idea that the three parts of the soul and the soul are dominated by the dominant part is used as the basis for identifying justice and virtue. However, the theory of the soul is used not only to distinguish between justice and virtue but also to show that the virtue of the city reflects the virtue of its inhabitants.

Not every dextrous discussion supports democracy. Plato (Republic, Book 6), because democracy tends to hurt the expertise necessary to properly manage society, democracy is divided into various forms of monarchy, aristocracy, and even oligarchy I insist that it is not as good. He believes in the democracy, those who have won the election ultimately dominate democracy. Democracy tends to emphasize this expertise at the expense of the expertise needed to properly manage society. The reason is that most people can not make them think about the difficult problems involving politics. But in order to win the term or to pass the bill, the politician must appeal to these people whether they are right or wrong. Therefore the state will be led by a very bad idea, experts who manipulate the public and appealing will use it to help them win the office.

After reading the Republic, Plato has three main points. The first of these three points is that Plato is dissatisfied with democracy. This led him to look at the ideal country mentioned by the republic because Socrates died prematurely during the democratic era of Athens. Plato is, material greedy believe to be one of the many political evil; In the opinion of Plato, greedy is one of the worst evil in political life. Therefore, economic power must be separated from politics.

Plato is one of the first and most influential thinkers to solve tyranny problems. He wrote that in the Republic (around 380 BC), democracy is supposed to fall into despotism. Probably Plato is not a fan of democracy, probably because Athens' democracy has sentenced to death to his beloved teacher Socrates. He believes that the democratic form of the government has created barbarian unskilled people who can become a smooth politician who is not good at responding to their desires. At Gogias written at the same time as the Republic he said that such politicians would not attract public interests but would attract the masses with unhealthy promises.