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1. [100.00%] POLITEIA (Republic) by Plato - Complete text - Part 5 Page 8

into the fire which is the tyranny of slaves. Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery. True, he said. Very well; and may we not rightly say that we have sufficiently discussed the nature of tyranny, and the manner of the transition from democracy to tyranny? Yes, quite enough, he said. BOOK IX

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2. [100.00%] LAWS by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 20

time very strong, as in a tyranny, there the change is likely to be easiest and most rapid. Cle. How? I do not understand. Ath. And yet I have repeated what I am saying a good many times; but I suppose that you have never seen a city which is under a tyranny? Cle. No, and I cannot say that I have any great desire to see one. Ath. And yet, where there is a tyranny, you might certainly see that of

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3. [73.91%] POLITEIA (Republic) by Plato - Complete text - Part 4 Page 69

of all, man and state alike, tyranny and the tyrant; these we have now to consider. Quite true, he said. Say then, my friend, in what manner does tyranny arise? —that it has a democratic origin is evident. Clearly. And does not tyranny spring from democracy in the same manner as democracy from oligarchy —I mean, after a sort? How? The good which oligarchy proposed to

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4. [73.91%] POLITEIA (Republic) by Plato - Complete text - Part 4 Page 71

order. And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty? Previous Page ||| First Page of this part Politeia part 5 of 5. Part 1 / 2 / 3 . You are at part 4 Plato Home Page & Bilingual Anthology

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5. [73.91%] POLITEIA (Republic) by Plato - Complete text - Part 5 Page 7

they are the eulogists of tyranny. Yes, he said, those who have the wit will doubtless forgive us. But they will continue to go to other cities and attract mobs, and hire voices fair and loud and persuasive, and draw the cities over to tyrannies and democracies. Very true. Moreover, they are paid for this and receive honour —the greatest honour, as might be expected, from tyrants, and the

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6. [73.91%] LAWS by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 19

is produced from a tyranny, and originates in a good lawgiver and an orderly tyrant, and that the change from such a tyranny into a perfect form of government takes place most easily; less easily when from an oligarchy; and, in the third degree, from a democracy: is not that your meaning? Previous Page / First / Next Page of this part Laws part 3 of 4 , 5 . Back to Part 1 . You are at part 2

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7. [52.17%] POLITEIA (Republic) by Plato - Complete text - Part 5 Page 66

condition. And there were tyrannies among them, some lasting out the tyrant's life, others which broke off in the middle and came to an end in poverty and exile and beggary; and there were lives of famous men, some who were famous for their form and beauty as well as for their strength and success in games, or, again, for their birth and the qualities of their ancestors; and some who were the reverse of famous for the

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8. [52.17%] LAWS by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 40

if he be also a despot, may be able to effect; but the legislator, who, not being a despot, sets up a new government and laws, even if he attempt the mildest of purgations, may think himself happy if he can complete his work. The best kind of purification is painful, like similar cures in medicine, involving righteous punishment and inflicting death or exile in the last resort. For in this way we commonly

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9. [52.17%] LAWS by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 12

two kinds of government, the despotic, and the other the most free; and now we are considering which of them is the right form: we took a mean in both cases, of despotism in the one, and of liberty in the other, and we saw that in a mean they attained their perfection; but that when they were carried to the extreme of either, slavery or licence, neither party were the gainers. Meg. Very true. Previous Page

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10. [52.17%] POLITICUS (Statesman) by Plato - Complete text - Page 58

they fancy that he will be a despot who will wrong and harm and slay whom he pleases of us; for if there could be such a despot as we describe, they would acknowledge that we ought to be too glad to have him, and that he alone would be the happy ruler of a true and perfect State. Y. Soc. To be sure. Previous Page / First / Next

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