To: Noumenon
Plato despised the strong and wealthy secular democracy of Athens for putting Socrates to death. In some ways he prefered the closed society of Sparta. Thucydides chronicled the arrogance and failures of Athens.
17 posted on
09/16/2002 9:11:57 PM PDT by
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To: x
The lure of bad ideas is with us always - another foible of human nature and a facet of the human condition.
19 posted on
09/16/2002 9:46:35 PM PDT by
Noumenon
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