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Yes. This is well known since Antiquity when the Athenian Democracy voted to condemn Plato to death. Read more about the period and you will see that the Democ
by aredox 2y ago
Yes. This is well known since Antiquity when the Athenian Democracy voted to condemn Plato to death.
Read more about the period and you will see that the Democratic cities of yore, Athens first and foremost, often swinged towards taking bad decisions, and that a whole corporation of "sophists" manipulated public opinion without shame (read e.g. Gorgias).
The great progress that enabled the restoration, extention and stabilisation of Democracy in the modern era has been indirect, representative democracy and base, written bill of rights/constitutions that aren't asily modified, requiring majorities of 2/3rds or more and constraint what can be voted on.
- regularization 2y agoQhat you doesn't make much sense, starting with your claim Plato was sentenced to death by Athenian democracy, which there is no evidence of that I know of.
- SubGenius 2y ago> ...when the Athenian Democracy voted to condemn Plato to death. That was Socrates, not Plato. Socrates was allowed to choose his own punishment too, so he wasn't exactly condemned to death right away. He also had the opportunity to escape prison. He chose not to.
- aredox 2y agoSorry for the Socrates/Plato mix-up. TikTok has the opportunity to divest. They chose not to.
- philipov 2y agoThe one condemned to death was Socrates. Kind of weird for that to be the detail you get wrong…
- aredox 2y agoYeah, yeah, sorry.