Who Is Socrates Protect A City?

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Introduction:
Idealists throughout the ages have proposed formulas to solve the problems of societies. These characters in their eagerness to design a harmonized society where all people have their basic needs covered. Many times they have ignored the individual right of people to decide for their future and had their aspirations. These goals of individuals should not be tied to a leader's ambition to achieve a political goal. In this book, we visualize how Socrates was seduced by the idea of formulating a city where there was harmony between social classes. Socrates envisions a healthy state city supported by a government that distributes resources in the justest way. To protect the city, Socrates says that certain citizens should be lied …show more content…

It could be inferred that Socrates analyzed that the guards already had privileges to have the strength and that their ranks would come to the leaders of the city, then they should be excluded so that they did not become tyrants and their commanders did not manipulate their subalterns to Their political convenience and particular interests. Keeping them separate from their individual interests would grant them neutrality over the benefit of the state as well as a favor of other …show more content…

Although in its essence Socrates Greatly limits the individual rights of some citizens especially to the guardians does it with a definite purpose of not giving them advantages over other citizens since it considers that the guardians are exceptional people who must be sacrificed for the common interest.
Many southern European countries were inspired by these ideas of suspending members of the Armed Forces individual and civil rights. For example, France in its Third Republic did not allow the military to exercise suffrage; this example was imitated by many governments in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Where it was argued that military leaders could influence ballot to their subordinates, the Weak argument is baseless since the members of the electoral councils exercise the suffrage and do not have the capacity to influence since the vote is free and secret. We understand that the security forces, as well as the defense forces, are more than ever trained and properly educated in their citizens' rights. We consider that restricting the rights contained in the declaration of human rights is a dangerous exclusion of rights; we would like to conclude by arguing that one of the Three countries of the American continent

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