Social Status In Plato’s Ideal State: Its Relevance To Nigerian Society

  CHAPTER ONE1:0    GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1:0:1 INTRODUCTION Man, by nature, is a social animal said Plato. But every “society is made up of unique individuals who fail or succeed, are powerful or weak, not as a consequence of stratification but because of their individual biographies”.[i]  It implies that man, being naturally social, unique and differs from one another in terms of individual biography, forms a society, which is comprised of different individuals with different or diverse natural dispositions and talents. Due to this diversity of human natural ability in doing things in the …