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September 29, 2021
Plato’s Republic Book VIII: On the Fall of Civilizations

Plato’s Republic Book VIII: On the Fall of Civilizations

In this essay, I explore Book 8 of The Republic and set forth Plato’s theory of cultural decline. In Book 8 of The Republic, Plato returns to the theme of how his ideal city degenerates into various lesser forms of government: Philosophical aristocracy falling to timocracy, timocracy to oligarchy, oligarchy to democracy, and finally democracy …

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