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Thread #77992 Message #1396868
Posted By: Wolfgang
02-Feb-05 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is a benign dictatorship a reality?
Subject: RE: BS: Is a benign dictatorship a reality?
As I understand Plato he opts for democracy. Not because it is necessarily better than monarchy, but because its evil twin ochlocracy is still much better than monarchy's evil twin, tyrannis.