"Idealists" is stretching it, but it seems plausible to me that they shared the extremely authoritarian class/caste-based ideas Plato would later express. And i

"Idealists" is stretching it, but it seems plausible to me that they shared the extremely authoritarian class/caste-based ideas Plato would later express. And it's not entirely impossible, even, that those ideas really came from Socrates.