Misreading Plato’s ‘Republic’ on Democracy. Apologists for tyranny hardly needed Leo Strauss to show how a superficial reading could be used to justify the denial of freedom. Share.

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Plato’s iconic work, ... These are the questions that launch the inquiry Plato dramatized in his “Republic,” a work that in antiquity bore the alternate title “On Justice.” ...

Somehow safe back in Athens, Plato repaid him, Mr. Romm shows, by using Dionysius I as the prototype of the generic tyrant in the “Republic,” the villainous foil to his model philosopher-king.

Plato concluded the ten books of the Republic with the myth of Er, which greatly influenced the Western mind, down to our very idea of heaven and hell.Although Plato “invented” the myth of Er ...