NEGARA DALAM PERSFEKTIF PLATO

Abstract

The country is a paradise for all its citizens. The goal is to create and guarantee happiness for all citizens, based on justice and wisdom as well as a sense of love for the motherland and solidarity. To create such conditions, all citizens must participate actively to know themselves and all the virtues that must be studied carefully and collectively. The purpose of this study is to examine Plato's concept of the state and test it in the present. The research method is qualitative research with library research. The results of his research are, according to Plato, the ideal state is an ethical community for the acquisition of virtue. Basically the state is a family where those who are citizens maintain brotherhood. Plato also said that the state was actually created or formed by the people. The formation of the state is due to the desires and needs of the people, which cannot be fulfilled individually. The important thing is that the state must make itself a service system, so that the existence of the state is needed at any time. According to him, the goal of the state is to realize the happiness and happiness of all citizens based on justice, wisdom, courage or enthusiasm and self-control in harmony and harmony in the life of the nation. To achieve state goals, citizens must have knowledge, especially good ideas, and apply them in all areas of life. What Plato championed as a form of government was an "aristocratic state", that is, a government ruled by wise intellectuals or philosophers who were guided by justice.