Plato's Republic

In Plato’s Republic , Socrates states how a democracy could deteriorate and fall into lower regime. There are many characteristics when it comes to the kind of people that occupy a democratic regime. Although there are many downfalls, there are certain ways that a democracy and other regimes could be saved.

A democracy in Plato’s Republic is viewed as one of the lowest types of regimes a city could have because it can be the one that fails the easiest. There are five total regimes that Plato ranks having to do with how successful they can be. The best being a Aristocracy, then Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy and the worst being Tyranny. Each type of regime that fails degenerates into a worse regime. For example, if a Democracy fails then it later becomes a Tyranny.

Democracy is characterized throughout the books as freedom and unnecessary desires being supreme to the people that occupy this regime. In a democracy the people have the freedom to do whatever they want. Things like spending money and abiding by the law are things that people chose to do rather then enforced to do. The downfall of this is that putting so much power into the publics hands often backfires. Desires to want more money can make the people of that regime become apart of different classes. The rich becomes richer, while the poor become poorer. This makes a giant leap between the two and makes the middle class almost nonexistent.

The child of a democratic man are exposed to these issues and can later become what is know as the worst form of man. The unstable type of regime leaves the child to want to become a man or power and wealth. Which is the main reason why a democracy would quickly become a tyranny. The children who grew up in a democracy are so ...

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...the other hand something like an atom molecule is not considered a being. This is because one believes that an atom molecule is real but as a result of one not being able to view it with your eyes one may only believe in the existence of it.

Socrates also believes that the difference between being and becoming can have a moral aspect to it. Lets say one thinks that they have fallen in love with the girl or boy of their dreams. One believes that the love they share is true, which would be a being, but later becomes aware that the other boy or girl doesn’t like him or her, that is know considered a becoming. One believed that it was true love because it appeared real, that appearance would fall under the world of becoming. The main difference between what’s being and becoming is the aspect of actually knowing if that thing is real rather then sensing its legitimacy.