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West African empires utilized CENTRALIZED governments ruled by KINGS. </span>
Answer:
I think it might be logic, but I'm not sure since Socrates studied philosophy.
Explanation:
I'm just guessing, sorry if it's wrong!
The piece of work that had a great impact during the American Revolution because it was written in an understandable way was "Common Sense", a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776.
It read aloud and circulated among public houses, taverns and public meeting places and, written in clear and understandable prose, it presented political and moral arguments for the independence. The text was written in the form of a sermon and while the arguments contained complex political, democratic and moral reflections, it was written to address the common man so anybody could read it, understand it and debate about them.
This addressing style and the readership it achieved made "Common Sense" an impressive piece of propaganda towards American Independence.
America as a whole became “paranoid”, and declared a “war on terrorism”
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)
