And somehow, I've gotten to this point without previously learning that the term "republic" originates from and literally means "public interest":
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Plato on Democracy, Freedom, and Trump
"Is the US Too Democratic? Let's See What Plato Says..." is philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's response to Andrew Sullivan's piece relating the current American political scene and the rise of Trump to Plato's thoughts expressed in The Republic, especially Book VIII.
And somehow, I've gotten to this point without previously learning that the term "republic" originates from and literally means "public interest":
And somehow, I've gotten to this point without previously learning that the term "republic" originates from and literally means "public interest":
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