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Why Socrates Hated Democracy - C C - Jul 25, 2023
https://youtu.be/fLJBzhcSWTk
VIDEO EXCERPT: Crucially, Socrates was not elitist in the normal sense. He didn’t believe that a narrow few should only ever vote. He did, however, insist that only those who had thought about issues rationally and deeply should be let near a vote. We have forgotten this distinction between an intellectual democracy and a democracy by birthright. We have given the vote to all without connecting it to wisdom. And Socrates knew exactly where that would lead: to a system the Greeks feared above all, demagoguery.
Why Socrates hated democracy