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Plato, Republic, Book VIII (pp. 225 - 240) "Further Injustice"

1) How is it that oligarchies degenerate into democracies?

2) How does the desire to make money produce a class of idle persons?

3) What are the two types of desires? How does Socrates distinguish between them?

4) How does the democratic person respond to these two types of desires?

5) What is the (social) disease which Socrates says developed in the oligarchic period and ended up enslaving the democratic?

6) Socrates distinguishes three classes in a democracy. What are they?

7) How does a tyrant arise from within a democracy?

8) Can a tyrannical person be happy? Why/why not?

I have read pp 225 - 240

I have not read pp 225 - 240