TY - JOUR
AU - Taylor, C.C.W.
AB -  PLATO'S TOTALARIANM C.C.W. Taylor Corpus Chrti College, Oxford Though topic th paper was originally suggested by Popper's attack on Plato 1n Open Society, my main concern not to take sides in great debate prompted by celebrated crique. exposory. My aim, rar, I shall first attempt to dtinguh three prinCipal varieties totalarianm and n try to see how close f between any those varieties and polical ory Republic, which Platonic text wh which I shall be mainly concerned. Totalarian states are charactered by a coincidence two features, authorarianm and ideology. By authorarianm I understand a system in which ordinary cizen has no significant share, eir direct or indirect, in making polical decions. Ancient tyrannies and some But a modern colonial regimes are or were authorarian in th sense. typical tyranny was not totalarian, since anor necessary condion, viz. ideology, was lacking. By an ideology I understand a pervasive scheme values, intentionally promulgated by some person or persons and promoted by instutional means in order to direct all or most significant aspects public and private life towards attainment goals dictated by those values. suggests, no ideology; Ancient tyrannies had, as far as our evidence principal aim tyrant was to preserve 
TI - Plato's Totalitarianism 1
JF - Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought
DO - 10.1163/20512996-90000290
DA - 1986-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/plato-s-totalitarianism-1-f06CJRJYRu
SP - 4
EP - 29
VL - 5
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -