R8 Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? | Plato's Republic, book 8
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Is Plato's Republic a History?
CNN's John Sutter: Is it possible that the Republic reflects some truth about how regimes tend to evolve over time? He says several significant political thinkers throughout history had concluded that Plato's sequence was not just a story, but a historical model. But in academia today, he says, no one thinks Plato is offering a valid historical model.
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