Democracy in Greek Philosophy

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This paper provides a philosophical discourse on democracy in "Gorgias" and "The Republic" by Plato and "Politics" by Aristotle. The paper first analyzes the basic philosophies of the two and then examines and compares their differing views on democracy.

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"In Greek philosophy, two important thinkers had made their mark in human history because of their profound contributions to the contemporary society's social organizations, ideologies, and political thought. Plato and Aristotle, philosophers who have dominated (in succession) Greek philosophy in the early 4th century BCE, were known for their opposing points of view about human knowledge and reason. Plato, who first coined the term "philosophy" to mean "love of knowledge," has been known to create discourses that seek to obtain knowledge by subsisting to the belief that there is an ideal realm of being within each human. Aristotle, meanwhile, opposes his mentor Plato's claim of knowledge obtained through the ideal and real, and instead proposes that knowledge is obtained through sensual experience that is, through the manifestation of the physical world."

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