Plato on the Evils of a “Government Resting on a Valuation of Property”
Hi. Here is a very interesting and timely exchange between Socrates and Adeimantus in Plato’s The Republic, ~360 BCE, Book 8: ADEIMANTUS: And what manner of government do you term oligarchy? SOCRATES: A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it. ADEIMANTUS: I […]