Plato Vs Lao-tzu on issues of government

Plato Vs Lao-tzu on issues of government

Plato has a great deal to say about goodness as it relates to government.  Compare his views with those of Lao-tzu (p. 203) and Niccolo Machiavelli (p. 219).  Which of these thinkers would Plato have agreed with most?  In comparing these three writers and their political views, consider the nature of goodness they required in a ruler.  Do you think that we hold similar attitudes today in our expectations for the goodness of our government?

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Plato is among the most respected people who lived on earth and did works on government and how a good government should be like. As it is the case with almost all the other people who took it upon themselves to do philosophical works, his ideas were mostly influenced with the happenings of his time and those before his time. Going by his works about how a good government should act and who holds the…

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