Why Plato Befriended Tyrants

Aug 12th 2025 11:09am EDT

Plato by L. Vorsterman after Peter Paul Rubens 5,046 words Socrates and Plato were enemies of tyranny. Indeed, in book 9 of Plato’s Republic, Socrates sets forth one of history’s oldest and most influential denunciations of tyrants and tyranny. Yet some of their best friends and students were tyrants. Socrates was a friend and teacher […]

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