There is very little that is happening in the world today that is not contained already in the pages of Plato’s Republic. Particularly, in book eight. In book eight, Plato deals with decline of democracy into tyranny…
In this lecture, we will meet the five regimes: aristocracy (love of wisdom), timocracy (love of honor), oligarchy (love of money), democracy (love of freedom), and tyranny (love of gain). We will meet the five characters that both create and are created by these various regimes and depict the psychological portraits of their decline.
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome and Setup
00:16 Back to Republics Main Question
02:28 Five Regimes and Characters
04:46 Aristocracy Ideal State
05:39 Nuptial Number Mystery
07:11 Timocracy Honor and War
08:43 Timocratic Character
10:27 Oligarchy
12:07 Oligarchic Soul Split
13:15 Democracy
14:14 Democratic Decadence and Desire
15:19 Necessary vs Unnecessary Desires
18:48 From Democracy to Tyranny
19:29 Making a Tyrant
20:52 Wrap up
