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Plato
Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of Athens. In 380 A.D., Plato wrote “The Republic,” where he described in Books 8 and 9: “States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters. … Like state, like man.”
“The Republic” is written as a collection of conversations of Plato’s teacher Socrates. It gives insights into human behavior which is amazingly similar to today. Plato described government going through five stages:
- Royal and Aristocratical
- Timocratical
- Oligarchical
- Democratical
- Tyrannical
First Stage
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