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Its defense of philosophic kingship
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is itself a direct repudiation of Athenian democracy.
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Its conception of justice, minding one's own business,
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is a rejection of the democratic belief that citizens
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have sufficient knowledge to participate in the offices of government.
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To be sure, Athenian democracy is not American democracy.
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Plato thought of democracy as a kind of rule
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by the many that he associated with
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the unrestricted freedom to do everything that one likes.
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This seems in many ways to be quite far from the American democracy
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based on constitutional government, systems of checks and balances,
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protection of individual rights, and so on.