1. Explain Plato and Aristotle’s theories of governance.
2. Then, provide an explanation of the current issues and public policy concerns of interest to you and how they are related, or not, to the works of Plato and Aristotle.
Resources:
Kraut, R. (2017). Plato. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/
Shields, C. (2020). Aristotle. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/
Aristotle. (2013). Politics: A treatise on government (W. Ellis, Trans.). E. P. Dutton & Company. (First issue of this ed. 1912 ). https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6762/6762-h/6762-h.htm
Jowett, B. (2017). The republic of Plato by Plato (3rd ed.) Oxford at the Clarendon Press. (Original work published 375 B.C.E.). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55201