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Ethics or Moral Philosophy Assignment

   

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1ContentsINTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................2Plato critique of Democracy..............................................................................................................2Ethics of John Locke and Karl Marx.................................................................................................3Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................5
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2INTRODUCTIONPhilosophers all around the world have given their theories and idea related to various aspectsof ethics and moral concerns (Calabresi & Vickery, 2014). It is very important to interprettheir idea in a better way so as to have a society where most of the people are satisfied. Platowas one of the first of his own kind who did not appreciate the democratic form ofgovernment. This report highlights the two different ideas given by two distinct philosopherson the various ethical concerns of the society.Plato critique of DemocracyIn earlier times, when there was more of a monarch culture and was followed in most part ofthe world. Plato one of the eminent philosopher of the world had a very different kind of ideaabout the democracy and its practice. In earlier era democracy was considered to be moreunstable and was not considered as a better way of governing the states and people. In thedialectical work ‘The republic’, Plato has mentioned about the five forms of government(Badiou, 2011). He described democracy as the unstable form of governing a state as well asgovernment that is one step away from that of tyranny. Plato argues that democracy comes asa result of discontent with small group of individuals ruling a state and will become tyrannyonce quest for complete freedom generates into autocratic rule (Seitz, 2018). Plato considereddemocracy as the penultimate step inevitable descent into cruel government for the societiesthat are decaying in political sense. His idea of democracy is that it is a cruel government ofthe majority.In my view his idea of democracy was more theoretical than what is practically judged. Idisagree because he fails to account for the fact that why democracies have flourished in thehistory and why it is one of the most successful and widely accepted forms of government. Inthe modern times it is one of the most necessary forms of the government and has empoweredpeople to have their views in the development of the society which is essential for the growthof any society. It has been seen that democracy reduces the quest for having the power. Theidea of democracy ‘to the people, for the people, by the people’ gives everyone an equalpower to participate in the process of governing the whole nation as well as providing equalopportunity to the people of the nation to grow at a constant pace. It also safeguards the rightsof the individuals which is very important for the development of the society. In the time of
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