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      • The tyrant is both a slave to his lusts, and a master to whomever he can enslave. Because of this, tyranny is the regime with the least freedom and happiness, and the tyrant is most unhappy of all, since the regime and soul correspond. His desires are never fulfilled, and he always must live in fear of his victims.
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    May 12, 2020 · This analysis obscures the overarching argument of the Republic, and Plato’s insistence that the tyrant embodies the worst form of injustice. His injustice consists in his unwillingness to recognize any law that restrains his freedom: the very laws that make human society possibly by imposing limits on our exercise of power.

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    The tyrannical man is a man ruled by his lawless desires. Lawless desires draw men toward all sorts of ghastly, shameless, criminal things. Socrates’s examples of lawless desires are the desires to sleep with one’s mother and to commit a foul murder. All of us have lawless desires, Socrates claims.

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    Nov 28, 2007 · At the antipodes of Plato's account of virtue stand the just and the tyrannical souls. The former, of course, is ruled by reason endowed with wisdom; and the latter is ruled by a kind of erōs , which we will call erotic passion.

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    May 7, 2021 · Thus, Aristotle is not inconsistent: tyranny is indeed the worst form of government, but Aristotle’s understanding of the word tyrant allows for flexibility, as does Plato’s. Both are aware that there could be a spectrum of good and bad rulers, but that the most complete form of tyrant was a bad ruler.

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    A strong trend in not only the political theory of Plato and Aristotle, but also Greek poetry and historiography in general, is to trace the decline of tyrannies from initially good and popular governments to ones that are despotic and unpopular: the tyrant’s progress. Keywords.

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    May 29, 2020 · Plato on tyranny in the Republic and the Laws. Tyranny appears when moral-civic rectitude decays in democracies. Tyranny is the complete opposite of rational civic-centered politics. The tyrant is fearful and feared. The tyrant does whatever he desires. Plato sought,...