History paper

Plato's Democracy Plato's Republic covers many topics from the purpose of a state to the many forms of government can have from aristocracies to democracy and philosopher kings. These discussions that Socrates has with the many people he meets describes greek culture and it political system. By defining and disregarding imperfect government systems the Greeks established on the first mass democracies, fostering a symbiotic relationship between the state and its citizens in hopes of creating the fairest state. Plato's Republic covers all these topics in detail, the entire writing is about forms of government. Apology is more about the artistic and dramatic culture of the Greek people. The Republic in a series of arguments about types of government they cover the governments of greece and the social and political evolution and structure of Greece. That is why the text Plato's Republic is superior to The apology In his talks with Adiemantus, Plato and Socrates discuss the evil or imperfect government systems such as oligarchy, tyranny, and timarchy. They remove these goverments as feasable goverments. In the Republic, they speak of these negative goverments as a mixture of good and evil1. They say that because the driving force behind the oilcharchy system is the pursuit of wealth and while that in itself is not a bad pursuit because it strengthens the state itself, the fact that the system being an olicharcy means that the ruling class would hoard the wealth, thus in sighting the rise of democracy.2 This would only defeat the purpose of the olicharcy. When it came to tyranny, they described it as naturally evil and the worst type of system for a state to adopt. They speak of it as if it were the last and very desperate choice of a failing state that was as far from perfection as possible.3 Finally, they speak of timarchy which is the honor system, which does not work for the fact that even though this system has a good intention that not all men will