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Those who are known to use cunning and deceiving tricks to get ahead are often called Machiavellian. Yet, they can also be described as realistic and practical. Unlike Plato, Niccolo Machiavelli sees mankind as it truly is. Machiavelli knows what humans really want and he sees us for what we really are. Whether that be selfish, conceiving, ungenerous, or immoral, it is true. He shows us how to use all our qualities to better ourselves, and how that could better our society. Plato, on the other hand, wants to be a perfecter of good qualities, and doesn't acknowledge how our bad qualities can work for us. Ideally if we could all share the knowledge and goodness we have, society would be perfect, but why strive for perfection? Machiavelli better understands mankind and society as it is today, while Plato is simply ideological.
Plato has a very idealistic view of how government and society should be run. Plato states in his essay “The Allegory of the Cave,” “...they must be made to descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labors and honors, whether they are wor...

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