... best form of government is not democracy, but rule by the many in the interest of all. • Anticipates the kind of popular self-rule that came to be called "republican. PLATO • Disciple of Socrates • Founder of philosophic idealism, according to which ideas exist in themselves and by themselves, forming a perfect and harmonious universe. • The Republic work describing an ... ...

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