Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens
Andrew Fiala, "Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens"
English | ISBN: 153816048X | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 1364 KB
English | ISBN: 153816048X | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 1364 KB
Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but what do we do when that drama becomes a reality all around us? For a country founded as an escape from British tyranny, the United States seems to have devolved into a land where tyrants rise to power, sycophants blindly follow, and the entire nation suffers.
As ancient Greek philosophers warned us, chaotic tragedy unfolds in the absence of reason, and the only cure is a return to wisdom and virtue. America’s founding fathers knew this lesson all too well and dreamed of an enlightened citizenry guided by better-than-ideological dictators.
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