Plato contends we are all made of the same three parts yet not all have the parts aligned in a healthy balance. The result is that greed, ambition, and foolishness rule in these unbalanced people. Plato lived through the democratic period in Athens' government and through the oligarchy period when the conquering Spartans installed the wealthy oligarchists as rulers of Athens, a move that unleashed a fierce retribution of bloodshed upon the unseated democratic rulers.
Plato rejected the rule of the mistake prone and seemingly unreasoning democratic faction and equally rejected the oligarchic rule of the retaliatory wealthy elite. After a period of seclusion, Plato wrote the Republic. In it he describes human nature and uses human nature (as he described it) as a metaphor and template for a reasonable government.
He assigns ruling authority to those who have a functioning alignment and balance between their three constituent parts and a dominant dedication to the highest: (1: lowest) love of money (laboring and merchants classes), (2: middle-most class) love of honor (military), and (3: highest) love of wisdom ("scientists, scholars, high-level experts, and similar sophisticates" [Jorn K. Bramann]).
His idea is that the two models he has seen don't work, so a third is needed. That third model is to make a government out of those who have the best minds by virtue of being best trained, best informed and best balanced (in the quote below, take note of and understand the "or"):
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, ... cities will never have rest from their evils. (Republic)
Answer:
To identify the guilty and give justice to innocent
Answer:
B
A woman’s role in the domus depended on many different things, like age and wealth, but usually she was under the control of the pater familias.
Explanation:
In ancient Roman empire, the role of males and women are distinctly seperated. This could be seen in the free born women in ancient Rome not being able to hold political office or vote unlike their male counterpart.
<em>The role of women, depends on so many things like her age which could enable her to become a priest in the priestly office of the Vestals or wealth which could see her controlling influence through private negotiation as obtainable with Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, or Fulvia, who commanded an army and issued coins bearing her image.</em>
<em>Overall, the woman still falls under the authority of the man who is the head of the family.</em>
