Political Science And Philosophy: The Nature Of Human Nature

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Introduction
From the beginning of ancient history the main question for political philosophy is how a human being exists in society, who should govern the society, how should the society be governed, who are the best rulers and how should they behave themselves, what is just and what is unjust, is better to be governed through just or not, how should the states be structured? These are main questions in political philosophy, that until today are strictly discussed. The major tasks of political philosophers are to analyze the nature of human being and to evaluate the ways in which an individual relates with society he lives in. The study of human nature is one of the most important aspects of political science and philosophy. In the process of creating a form of governance it is essential to understand the innate characteristics of human nature in order to avoid a bad government for all society and to achieve the ways how people should be governed most effectively. From the ancient time the roots of justification of political power were tied to sights of human nature.
Political philosophers try to establish principles according which it will be possible to justify a particular form of government and state, will be possible to prove that individuals have their inalienable rights, will be possible to see how to share material and natural resources justly within the society and its members, but the question is whether these principles have universal validity or they have just the meaning of assumptions about the particular political society?
Plato, Aristotle and Machiavelli have spent their lives in assertion of which form of government is good and who should be ruler, what type of ...

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...s Prince should know what to do and should do what is needed. Philosopher kings are willing to make the necessary sacrifices because it is for the good of state. Both philosophers realized that it is necessary for a ruler to have complete power in and both agreed that a virtue is needed to create a good state and without virtue each and every state will fail.
Machiavelli asserted that people should be left alone to support the ruler, while Plato argued that government needs to interfere with people to make their lives virtuous. Machiavelli’s Prince is oriented to maintain his power, while Plato’s philosopher king cares for his people not his own power.
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