Socrates died before Plato wrote about the ideal state. Do you think Socrates would have agreed with Plato’s ideas about the ideal state? Why or why not?

1. If you lived in ancient Greece and ran into Socrates on the street, what do you think your opinion of him would be?  Why? I would be quite displeased to encounter him because I am a person who does a lot of critical thinking to develop opinions of my own. Who is Socrates to tell me that the definition of beauty that I believe to be true is a hoax?2. Socrates died before Plato wrote about the ideal state. Do you think Socrates would have agreed with Plato’s ideas about the ideal state? Why or why not?I do not believe he would, simply because Socrates philosophies state that humans should aspire to individual happiness. Opposingly, Plato believed in that individual happiness should be placed second to allow for social order. 3. How do you think Plato would feel about modern democracies like the United States and Canada? Why?

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