Word: adeimantus
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...cutting and simplifying Plato's far-from-Basic Greek, the Dialogues have been brought over into something very like Basic English. Last week, Bostonians tuning in on a chat between Socrates and Adeimantus On Tyranny (The Republic, Book VIII) might have thought they were hearing a couple of Harvard scholars fogging their horn-rimmed glasses with deep sighs over current world events. Excerpt...
Socrates: Come now, tell me, Adeimantus, how tyranny arises. That it grows out of democracy is fairly clear. . . . Democracy is undone by what it thinks is the best thing there is. ... Freedom. In a democracy they all say that a democracy is the only sort of government for a free man to live under...
...Adeimantus: That's often said...