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Politics : Evolution
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To: Solon who wrote (18787)12/28/2011 1:24:54 PM
From: koan1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
<<That would be irrelevant. The point being made about Socrates was that Socrates (and Plato) both considered it in the same light as Ayn Rand. They considered democracy to be inferior and dangerous.

Well sure, the idea of democracy was in its infancy in 350 BC! Ayn Rnad had another 2,000 years of political evolution to work with.

Jefferson and Washington had slaves.

The point was the social contract. Socrates believed strongly in the social contract. Rand thought her intelligencia (an oxymoron IMO) should run the world. No social contract there.

Rand would not have come to the aid of the poor, just like that crazy clown Ron Paul (survival of the fitest).

Plato and Socrates would have, they had empathy.
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