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Plato's Republic
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Degeneration of the Ideal State in Books Eight and Nine
After that is sort of the pinnacle of why we need philosophers to liberate us. We're stumbling through our lives with closed eyes and closed ears, and, you know, we think we're free, and we're not. And he gives us brilliant account of how democracy can degenerate into tyranny when it's exploited by an unscrupulous demagogue. But the way for that has been paved by the image of the cave,. cause we we kind of see just how vulner democracy is and just how lacking in knowledge and freedom we really are.
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