“Why Plato Hated Democratic Elections”

Nov 18th 2024 2:42pm EST

Original article And how to break the endless cycle Ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato held deep reservations about democracy. They saw it as inherently flawed and doomed to descend into tyranny. But a later thinker saw a way to avoid this inevitable cycle. The Greek historian Polybius, writing 200 years after Plato, proposed […]

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