M.A English (final) 3rd Semester
Dr. Shirshendu Chakravarthy
13th November 2014
Is it better to remain in the cave with Machiavelli, or see the light with Socrates?
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” ― Plato, The Republic
We can observe that today’s generation undergo some very grave and problematic issues. One such is that there is a predicament regarding the lack of successful leadership. The cause why we possess such challenge in today’s human race is due to the unproductive leadership. The powerful and influential individuals who construct judgments frequently concerned …show more content…
To systematize the newly constructed society, nation confided in a leader. Numerous individuals speculate concerning how accurate leadership should be and how they should operate. Several folks in the ancient history have inscribed on the subject of supreme leader and states and how to uphold them. Perhaps the most prominent and evaluated are Machiavelli's, The Prince and Plato's, The Republic. Plato and Machiavelli are those philosophers who enquired about the intrinsic worth of a leader and their characterization of leadership, up till now comprises authority in debating the contemporary time republics. Plato's ‘Republic’ was inscribed in primeval Greek in order to build up an ideal nation state together with the so called 'perfect' leader and Machiavelli's ‘The Prince’ was written in the 16th century offering guidance to princes to control their states. However these two thinkers resided in entirely different state of affairs, still both have powerful and valid points in identifying a …show more content…
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