Iodians Contributions to Western Thought

Sophists believed in the men being the leaders. The men were put first before women. The men needed to be fully educated, mostly men anyway. They had a social contract that was just like the constitution. To vote or get most things approved the government or whoever has to get the consent of the people because they all work together.

Plato wrote a book called “The Republican”. His teacher was Socerties and they didn’t agree with having faith in man. Everybody says man is the top of the food chain but Plato came up with a three level society that tells who is ranked from top to bottom. The top are the philosophers, because they’ve lived longer so they’ve studied and they have the best idea of what everything means. In the middle is the military and the bottom are the workers/common people. Plato also believes there’s no such th...