What is the ideal state according to Socrates?
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What is the ideal state according to Socrates? In a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon they came to one agreement that in an exemplary state,
wives and children must be common, in both peace and war, pursuit must be shared, together with king must be best both in philosophy and where war is concerned.
In addition, individuals are forbidden to have own property moreover should receive their minimum yearly upkeep from the citizens, together with take care of themselves and the rest of the
city. During the conversation they established that there five types of state as humans characters, such as aristocratic, theocracy, oligarchic, democratic, tyrannical systems.
From the point of view of Socrates, the aristocracy is considered the best form of state, he describe it as good and just. After Socrates and Glaucon decided to estimate all
types of state and they began with timocracy
How aristocracy becomes timocracy? According to Socrates time leads to the collapse of the aristocrasy. Over time children will born who should not be, together with this will lead to
disputes and disagreement between receivers. At first time kings will choose strongest, however after a while they will start picking on the weak, from the point of view of Socrates
it is a soul that is mixed with gold and silver. Likewise an inferior generation will develop wanting land and money. In addition, Timocratic individual is a son who tries to be more of
man, less of a philosopher, however he becomes ambitious to prove himself in war and business.
How timocracy becomes oligarchic? According to Socrates gold leads to the collapse of the timocracy. When state becomes regardless of gold, the wealthy soul pet themselve on the throne
together with they despise the poor which leads to revolution and envy, and envy begans betrayal. Generaly this form of state is not stable because there are no restriction
for the rich they can do whatever they want, which leads to commit murder, hide murder, corruption, slavery, even violence, moreover this form generates soul without skill,
experience etc. Oligarchic man in the begining will vallue honor, but when government inprison his father, he will begin to be affraid, which leads to the fact that he will care
only about gold and nothing more even for which his father was imprisoned.
What is the ideal
state
according to Socrates? In a conversation between Socrates and
Glaucon
they came to one agreement that in an exemplary state,
wives and children
must
be common, in both peace and war, pursuit
must
be shared
, together with king
must
be best both in philosophy and where war
is concerned
.
In addition
, individuals
are forbidden
to have
own
property
moreover
should receive their minimum yearly upkeep from the citizens, together with take care of themselves and the rest of the
city
. During the conversation they established that there five types of
state
as humans characters, such as aristocratic, theocracy, oligarchic, democratic, tyrannical systems.
From the point of view of Socrates, the aristocracy
is considered
the best form of
state
, he
describe
it as
good
and
just
. After Socrates and
Glaucon
decided to estimate all
types of
state and
they began with
timocracy
How aristocracy
becomes
timocracy
? According to Socrates time leads to the collapse of the
aristocrasy
. Over time children will born who should not be, together with this will
lead
to
disputes and disagreement between receivers. At
first
time kings will choose strongest,
however
after a while they will
start
picking on the weak, from the point of view of Socrates
it is a soul that
is mixed
with gold and silver.
Likewise
an inferior generation will develop wanting land and money.
In addition
,
Timocratic
individual is a son who tries to be more of
man
, less of a philosopher,
however
he
becomes
ambitious to prove himself in war and business.
How
timocracy
becomes
oligarchic? According to Socrates gold leads to the collapse of the
timocracy
. When
state
becomes
regardless of gold, the wealthy soul pet
themselve
on the throne
together with they despise the poor which leads to revolution and envy, and envy
begans
betrayal.
Generaly
this form of
state
is not stable
because
there are no restriction
for the rich they can do whatever they want, which leads to commit murder,
hide
murder, corruption, slavery, even violence,
moreover
this form generates soul without
skill
,
experience etc. Oligarchic
man
in the
begining
will
vallue
honor,
but
when
government
inprison
his father, he will
begin
to be
affraid
, which leads to the fact that he will care
only
about gold and nothing more even for which his father
was imprisoned
.
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