Transformation of the Idea of an Ideal State: Seen from the West

The life of a human has a purpose of progress and achieving of prosperity, however, not by remaining in solitude but by sharing the life and its experience with others. According to the Western thinkers, people prefer to live in communities to meet their needs. For the purpose of convenience and survival as a community people since many centuries were occupied with an idea of safe and convenient communal way of living. It was hoped that such an idea could be fully realised in a form of an Ideal State. The author examines the genesis of the views and opinions expressed by the Western philosophers regarding this problem as well as their subsequent transformations. He starts with Plato and continues with Aristotle, Augustine, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Marx.

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