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Plato on society and human nature - “Yet, even more deeply than Plato’s conception of Truth, his conception of man is not compatible with democracy. In Plato’s 3-class society, the rulers have the right, & duty, to rule all, because they possess the highest quality – rational wisdom. The class of the civilian-military administrators ( auxiliaries ) is characterized by courage…& the 3rd, lowest, class the mass of the people whose dominant psychological trait is the desire to satisfy their crude material & instinctual desires. According to Plato, this 3-fold division of society merely reflects the 3-fold division of the human soul: it, too, is made up of 3 elements: the rational;…the highest; the spirited, which has the capacity to follow & assert the claims of reason; & the appetitive, the lowest…man’s desires & emotions…” p. 11. goodreads/book/show/1020647.Great_Political_Thinkers
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:12:08 +0000

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