Fair That Is, Harmony

The human being has never stopped pursuing for the ideal society since there is human being' s society. The more influential thought in the principle of numerous ideal society is the thought talking about harmonious society. Constructing harmonious society has been a human being' s dream and purpose.Thought of harmony and harmonious society can date back to 5^th century BC from the history of thought. During this period, the thinker of China and Ancient Greece spontaneously began to search after it. Despite its history and class limitation, it still could afford us lots of valuable spiritual wealth in constructing modern harmonious society.In the past numerous theories, it is Marx who really made the harmonious society based on science and envisioned the ideal model of harmonious society in the future—Communist Society, which is not only the foundation of construction of socialist harmonious society But also the ultimate goal of constructing and developing the socialist harmonious society. It is very necessary to mine human being' s thought treasure-house because constructing the socialist harmonious society and ultimately realizing the communist still need lots of quest and research in theories, and it is also the reason 1 choose Plato' s.harmonious thought to study. Although many depictions of Plato look very immature or even absurd, it is difficult to cover up many flashlight points of Plato. The Ideal Country, written by Plato, which embodies the harmonious thought, including national justice, harmonious order and legal ruling in the political philosophy. It is very meaningful to the construction of harmonious society as well as its characteristics. The basic features of modern harmonious society are the democracy, the justice, the honesty —credit behavior and friendly affection, the stable and orderly environment, the harmonious existence between human being and nature etc, which can be found from Plato' s harmonious thought. Therefore it still has function of profound enlightenment and value of reference towards the...