Archives for 9 May 2008
Insomnia Thought #2
Plato’s republic compares five types of government: Philosophic, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy and Tyranny. He also places them in that order, best to worst.
Democracy may seem to have done poorly, but he is talking about what we would probably term Anarchy.
The kicker of the book is that he is not exactly writing exclusively about the government […]