e, he would be a ruler. Constitutions were thus related to the character of the citizen body. The good state, like the good man, possessed the character of temperance, courage, and wisdom.” Plato believes that the state is also inevitable, as no one man is self-sufficing. We all have many needs, and the state helps to create a system to satisfy all our requirements. Because the state needed to create laws that would allow the citizen to achieve all these requirements, we see a notion in “The Republic” similar to our modern concept of contract-law. Plato embraces what we know of now as consideration: “If one man gives another what he has to give in exchange for what he can get, it is because each finds that to do so is for his own advantage”(The Republic). If democracy is “the extreme of popular liberty,” than our system of democracy, may be in theory, not democratic at all. In reference to what Annus referred to as “McCarthyite America”, one could definitely question the validity of our governing system, and the effect legal reasoning has on the court system…if there is any at all! While many were publicly humiliated, blacklisted, and put behind bars through as series of court sessions because of their non-conformist beliefs of communism, we must realize that the true nature and function of democracy did not endure during this period in American history. Through the culmination of the philosophies Plato has presented, we can assert that this type of behavior is unavoidable, and as history has proven, we must conclude that Plato is correct in this belief.Plato believes this concept of moral decency for the people will inevitably, as stated before, lead to tyranny. He couldn’t get over this inescapable outcome, although he did realize the possibilities of a good state. We must comprehend that Plato accepted the need for law, and how pluralism should not be a conc...
