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R8 Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? | Plato's Republic, book 8
Ancient Greece Declassified
Sullivan Quote, Democracy
In a democracy, the people develop a disdain for high culture. The obsession with freedom and equality that takes hold in a democracy leads to the dismantling or inversion of all hierarchies. And it is one a democracy has ripened as fully as this, Plato argues, that a would-be tyrant will often seize his moment.
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