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Plato
Title: Plato
Category: History
Details: Words: 1401 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Plato
Living Well According to Confucius and Plato
Both Confucius and Plato considered the question, what form of community is best for all those who are most able to realize their ideal life. Living well is having a life that is both satisfying and fulfilling. Displeased with their individual state governments and cultures both Confucius and Plato began to question the basis of their society. Both men strove toward a Utopia, were all people could live …showed first 75 words of 1401 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1401 total…Socrates. Plato went to the extreme of communism to try to get rid of the problems of the Athenian government. What he did not realize was that he created a whole new set of problems with his view of what living well meant.
Confucianism is much better because it addressed the problems within the society without creating new ones. Plato’s Republic sounds good, but if put to practical use it would be a disaster.
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