Plato views tyranny as the final stage of political decay
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Scholarly and reference literature confirms that in the Republic, Plato outlines a process of political degeneration progressing through various regimes to end in tyranny as the final stage of decay.
... Plato elaborated in the Republic and elsewhere , trying to harden and sharpen its essential features in order to eliminate , so far as possible , those elements which , even in this form of society , made for change - and hence for decay ...
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... Plato's view , had degenerated by the sorry process of historical change and decay through the progressively baser forms of oligarchy and democracy to the final degradation of tyranny . It was the early static stage of society that Plato ...
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plausible Plato ’s assumption of an overall principle of the good as the basis of the political order, his ... explain the generation and decay typical of each political system and the psychopathology of its leaders ... worst ( the tyranny of lust) in Books VIII and IX. A discussion of the tenability of this explanation of political ...
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