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Ep. 120: Starting With the Man in the Mirror

Young Heretics

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Plato, Sparta, Rome, a Democracy?

Machiavelli says that everything decays toward tyranny unless you have thes sort of safeguard, guardianship of liberty. The question arises whether this should be entrusted to the nobles or commons. He is admirating one of the reasons why sparta, for plato, is a democracy. It's people who seek honours, who seek to be as noble as possible.

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