Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Politics, Economics and Law (ICPEL 2017)

The Analysis of the Plutarch Political Thought

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Ya Feng
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Ya Feng
Available Online July 2017.
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10.2991/icpel-17.2017.31How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Plutarch, Political thought, Democracy, Analysis
Abstract

Plutarch is hailed as a great biographer, moralist, but not a politician. In his code of ethics, however, politics has been the most prominent. He thinks the best political system is the monarchy. He has a low opinion of ordinary people, who believe that they are ignorant and short-sighted, and that he thinks that democracy is but a government of rabble. He inherited Plato's philosophy that the monarch should be held by a good philosopher. But when Plutarch lived, it was impossible to achieve it, so he proposed that the philosopher should be assisted by the concept of the monarch.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Politics, Economics and Law (ICPEL 2017)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
July 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-379-1
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2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/icpel-17.2017.31How to use a DOI?
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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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