Ancient Greece Declassified

R8 Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? | Plato's Republic, book 8

Oct 1, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The Ivory Tower, Part 2: Sullivan's Article
02:00 • 3min
3
Why Do Scholars Dismiss Plato's Model of Democracies?
05:04 • 4min
4
How Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny According to Plato?
08:52 • 2min
5
Calipolis - Aristocracy in Ancient Greek
10:38 • 2min
6
What Kind of Regime Can Calipolis Turn Into?
12:09 • 5min
7
Plato's Calipolis
17:06 • 6min
8
The Downfall of Oligarchy
22:38 • 2min
9
Plato's Criticism of Democracy
24:15 • 2min
10
Sullivan Quote, Democracy
26:02 • 5min
11
Is Plato's Republic a History?
31:17 • 3min
12
Why People Don't Believe Plato
33:58 • 4min
13
Plato Had Access to a Phenomenal Data Set
37:54 • 2min
14
In 3 - A Self-Conscious Fiction
40:17 • 6min
15
Plato Was Wrong About Democracy
46:12 • 3min
16
The Last Part of Plato's Sequence Is Wrong
49:33 • 4min
17
History Isn't Cyclical
54:00 • 3min
18
Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny?
56:55 • 3min