Why Tyranny can be the Inevitable Outcome of Democracy
"Plato, one of the earliest thinkers and writers about democracy, predicted that letting people govern themselves would eventually lead the masses to support the rule of tyrants. When I tell my college-level philosophy students that in about 380 B.C. he asked “does not tyranny spring from democracy,” they’re sometimes surprised, thinking it’s a shocking connection," writes Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology (Nov. 27th, 2019)