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The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept ... Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 4, Plato: The Man and his Dialogues, Earlier Period ...

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