PHIL 30123: THEORIST OF VIRTUES AND CITY STATES- LLOREN MELVIN, P. (original) (raw)

Politics in our daily life: Issues about Democracy and Plato's Ideal Society In our world where power is everything, many people want to grasp what they don't know how to control and how to achieve. We are blinded by the power just like the light from the sun. Thus, making us live an unworthy life. Politics can make individuals Kings or Servants. It drives people to do things-that we must not. Politics controls the society, either bringing a society to flourish or destruction through abusing the power. We may not feel the effect of power in politics, maybe because of our privileged lives, and we might also have the power to live a comfortable life. But many of us can't, and live a miserable life. Not just because they are lazy, and not working hard enough, but because of injustices inside the country we lived in. The abuse of power is the main reason why some of us are living in poverty. And I think this is enough reason for everyone to be concerned and study politics. Throughout history, Politics is a display of power. From Kings and Queens, and Lords and Captains. They can command the entire republic or kingdom for themselves. Thus, they can also bring the kingdom to its destruction. Aside from kings and Queens, the rulers of a Monarchy, Athens reiterate a new kind of politics, they introduce the Democracy. And the