Question

Why does Plato argue that Aristocracy is a superior form of government to Democracy? Do you agree with Plato’s criticisms of democracy? Explain your reasoning fully, and use examples to support what you say.

Answer 1

Answer:

Plato believed that the aristocracy would allow only people with the right intellect to rule the country efficiently. He believed that aristocracy was the combination of wisdom and virtue and that this is reserved for only a limited number of noble citizens who have full access to the highest quality education.

Explanation:

The aristocracy is a way of establishing a national government through specific people in society who would have all the power of governance in a country. These people would be chosen through noble lineage and wealth.

Aristoteles and Plato were great supporters of these systems, as they believed that only people with full access to quality education would have sufficient ethical and moral intellect to be a head of government. Only nobles had this access.

These philosophers believed that the aristocracy was much better than democracy, because democracy gave freedom to anyone to stand for political office, in addition to allowing people who had no access to education and therefore a "low intellect" to choose those who would represent the government.

Although today, some people believe that the aristocracy is a good form of government, we know that it is not right to believe that. This is because keeping a country's governance power in the hands of a single family, where the post of head of state is chosen through a lineage is very dangerous.

Democracy allows us to remove tyrannical and inefficient leaders from power and choose that candidate who represents ideas that will benefit the country and lead its people to advance.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. As it can be seen or observed in the great kingdoms across the globe in which a King was followed by his descendants to rule the region after him(which was also limited to their male heirs), so it was not right and seemed to be more then just unfair. So, that is how aristocracy is not good for any nation to have inside its system.
2. We always say that, "Power Corrupts". Same is the case for democracy in the eyes of Plato as according to Plato, democracy offers to much opportunity to every individual and more over the citizens of the different countries as there are no such restrictions held on the people for having the specific level of intelligence, mental or physical strength, and that there are no such formalities for any being to register him or herself for the process of section among thousands or millions inside the specific region. So, he calls it to be very unfair to the form of governance to have person with some less developed set of skills or other factors.

Explanation:

• There are there are different form of governance and laws inside the different countries, as each country holds different form of structures and ideology. While, aristocracy was more dominant in the early human civilizations in which less number of individuals were able to have the highest level of education and thus they were able to acquire skills required to lead there nations.

• As, each country requires strong leaders but there is always a requirement for providing equal chances and rights to all the beings inside the being and that is the beauty of having democracy inside the region.