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)
The options available are:
A. The government raised taxes.
B. The government called for genuine political reform.
C. The government forced all estates to pay the same taxes.
D. The government reduced the Third Estate’s tax burden.
Answer:
A. The government raised taxes.
Explanation:
The era of bad harvests, famine, and rioting, in France, was what led to the French revolution in between 1789 - 1799 and under King Louis XVI. During this period, French government in its attempt to rescue the situation and improve the worsening financial crisis, made the government raised taxes.
The result, which, though helps the economic condition of the French government, it worsens the economic conditions of the people in France as a whole.
True.
For people who use K12, this is the correct answer:))
I had this on my test too, and I scored a 100!
<span>Jesus's claim that people should love their neighbors as they.</span>
I would say government, as it was responsible for organizing the Theban army.
