{"id":44201,"date":"2025-06-27T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/1-platos-republic-an-unconditional-critique-of-democracy-in-the-name-of-rule-by-experts-or-a-cautionary-tale-meant-to-educate-democracy-and-tame-its-most-disruptive-tendencies\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:12:09","slug":"1-platos-republic-an-unconditional-critique-of-democracy-in-the-name-of-rule-by-experts-or-a-cautionary-tale-meant-to-educate-democracy-and-tame-its-most-disruptive-tendencies","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/1-platos-republic-an-unconditional-critique-of-democracy-in-the-name-of-rule-by-experts-or-a-cautionary-tale-meant-to-educate-democracy-and-tame-its-most-disruptive-tendencies\/","title":{"rendered":"1) Plato&#8217;s Republic: an unconditional critique of democracy in the name of rule by experts or a cautionary tale meant to educate democracy and tame its most disruptive tendencies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students are asked to choose one prompt and write a short essay (between 4 and 5 double-spaced pages, Times New Roman, 12). The primary goal of this assignment is to make sure students master the assigned readings and are able to both compare authors and think critically through the authors&#8217; ideas. Please, as with most academic essays, make sure that you briefly present your argument in the very first paragraph of your essay and that you unpack and develop your argument throughout the paper based on textual evidence. Any application of the clas sical authors&#8217; ideas to contemporary scenarious should be properly argued.Chicago style with footnotes.<\/p>\n<p>Plato, Republic (375 BC), <a>Book I (pp. 1-31)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a>Links to an external site.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republic, <a>Book II (pp. 32-59)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a>Links to an external site.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>, <a>Book III (pp. 88-93)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a>Links to an external site.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>, <a>Book IV (pp. 94-121)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a>Links to an external site.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>. (62 pages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plato, Republic, <a>Book V (pp. 122-156)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a>Links to an external site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>, <a>Book VI (pp. 157-185)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a>Links to an external site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>, <a>Book VII (pp. 186-212)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a>Links to an external site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>, <a>Book VIII (pp. 213- 240)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a>Links to an external site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>. <\/p>\n<p>Notes. <\/p>\n<p>Plato \u2013 Democracy and Tyranny (Republic Book VIII)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Democracy deteriorates into license \u2014 freedom beyond law.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf License \u2192 chaos, anarchy \u2192 rise of tyrant who promises order.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Tyrant manipulates public desire for stability, centralizes power.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Kalipolis (ideal city) degenerates through stages: aristocracy \u2192 timocracy \u2192<\/p>\n<p>oligarchy \u2192 democracy \u2192 tyranny.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are asked to choose one prompt and write a short essay (between 4 and 5 double-spaced pages, Times New Roman, 12). The primary goal of this assignment is to make sure students master the assigned readings and are able to both compare authors and think critically through the authors&#8217; ideas. Please, as with most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[28],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/44201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/44201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=44201"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=44201"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=44201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}