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The basic stage of the history of modern western legal thought

1 Ancient Greece and Rome Stage 2, Medieval Stage 3, Liberal Capitalism Stage 4, Imperialism Stage

Three legal concepts of western legal thought: natural law concept, regular law concept and living law concept.

The characteristics of ancient Greek legal thought: 1, the spirit of freedom 2, the thought of natural law 3, the spirit of democracy and rule of law.

Plato is the first thinker in the history of western legal thought with a large number of works handed down from generation to generation, including The Ideal Politician and Law.

Utopia: Plato conceived a hierarchical country, consisting of three levels: the ruling class, the samurai class and the working class. Just as the human soul has three parts, the relationship between different levels is equivalent to the relationship between parts with different natural functions in the soul.

The king of philosophy: those who possess virtues such as wisdom, justice and kindness are the most knowledgeable people, and the most intelligent people are the inevitable rulers.

Aristotle's works include Ethics, Politics and Athens Politics.

Aristotle attributed the essence of polis to the essence of citizens.

What is justice? Aristotle put forward the standard of the mean, that is, take it.