The aristocratic regime is governed by the princip knowledge. The aristocrat is wise. She has a love of wisdom or knowledge. Wisdom is the ultimate goal of aristo- the cratic personality, who is appointed to lead the people. Her qualifications for leadership are predicated on the quality and quantity of wisdom, political wisdom. The aristocratic regime disseminates this ideal and it attempts to make it a hegemonic idea. Unfortunately, the regime does not succeed. The people have other competing values that the wish to
cultivate. Consequently, the yearning for wisdom gives way to the aggressive entrance of honor. Honor displaces wisdom.
Timocracy replaces aristocracy, the timocrat takes the place of the aristocrat. Honor is the organizing principle of timocracy. In this regime, honor does become a hegemonic idea. The young and the old drink from it. Everyone lives or honor. The timocrat becomes the leader of his people. Because he possesses what they all secretly and not so secretly wish to have, they choose him to lead them. Children at a very young age were trained by their nurses to ridicule those who fail to buy honor though wealth. They would hear their mothers complain about the fathers who have not become market men. The impressionable would hear these remarks and resolve to become honorable. Through these ingenious ways honor comes to take philosophy's place. A new value system is introduced in the interstices of timocracy. The people come to realize the benefits of honor: wealth, power and prestige.
Children listen to their mothers and nannies at home bitterly complaining about failed fathers. The father is called slack and cowardly because he did not choose money-mak ing as a vocation. Impressionable children grow up listening to these gossips, resenting their ill-spoken fathers. So they resolve to change the tide of their own paths away from virtue and integrity.
Their desiring part is fueled with the oil of money and fame. The desiring part is overwatered while the reasoning part, which was the virtue of the aristocrat, lies fallow, like a neglected field. The timocrat now becomes an oligarch.
Oligarchy is organized by the quest for money. Money displaces honor. The timocrat becomes an oligarch. Once this trend starts it is almost unstoppable. Plato writes, From there they progress in money making, and the more honor- able they consider it, the less honorable they consider virtue.
Or isn't virtue in tension with wealth,as though each were lying in the scale of a balance, always inclning in opposite directions? Surely, when wealth and the wealthy are honored in the city, virtue and the good men less honor able. What happens to be honored is practiced, and what is without honor is neglected" (The Republic, 551a-b, p. 228).
The love of victory and the honor that came with it is now replaced by the love of money and the value that is conferred on the wealthy. The poor man is dishonored. Begging and stealing become the poor man's ways. The wealthy produce new truth that humiliates and describes poor.
The wealthy oligarch does not have specialty. He is a jack of all trades. When mood moves him all trades, including war making, about which he knows nothing. The oligarch's excessive desire comes at the expense of producing poverty, neighborhood thieves, cutpurses, temple robbers.
The streets of Addis are marked reminders of this reality By the yardstick of life in Addis nothing seems to have changed. Rather, the question that Plato asked in The Republic remains puzzling.
The aristocratic regime is governed by the princip knowledge. The aristocrat is wise. She has a love of wisdom or knowledge. Wisdom is the ultimate goal of aristo- the cratic personality, who is appointed to lead the people. Her qualifications for leadership are predicated on the quality and quantity of wisdom, political wisdom. The aristocratic regime disseminates this ideal and it attempts to make it a hegemonic idea. Unfortunately, the regime does not succeed. The people have other competing values that the wish to
cultivate. Consequently, the yearning for wisdom gives way to the aggressive entrance of honor. Honor displaces wisdom.
Timocracy replaces aristocracy, the timocrat takes the place of the aristocrat. Honor is the organizing principle of timocracy. In this regime, honor does become a hegemonic idea. The young and the old drink from it. Everyone lives or honor. The timocrat becomes the leader of his people. Because he possesses what they all secretly and not so secretly wish to have, they choose him to lead them. Children at a very young age were trained by their nurses to ridicule those who fail to buy honor though wealth. They would hear their mothers complain about the fathers who have not become market men. The impressionable would hear these remarks and resolve to become honorable. Through these ingenious ways honor comes to take philosophy's place. A new value system is introduced in the interstices of timocracy. The people come to realize the benefits of honor: wealth, power and prestige.
Children listen to their mothers and nannies at home bitterly complaining about failed fathers. The father is called slack and cowardly because he did not choose money-mak ing as a vocation. Impressionable children grow up listening to these gossips, resenting their ill-spoken fathers. So they resolve to change the tide of their own paths away from virtue and integrity.
Their desiring part is fueled with the oil of money and fame. The desiring part is overwatered while the reasoning part, which was the virtue of the aristocrat, lies fallow, like a neglected field. The timocrat now becomes an oligarch.
Oligarchy is organized by the quest for money. Money displaces honor. The timocrat becomes an oligarch. Once this trend starts it is almost unstoppable. Plato writes, From there they progress in money making, and the more honor- able they consider it, the less honorable they consider virtue.
Or isn't virtue in tension with wealth,as though each were lying in the scale of a balance, always inclning in opposite directions? Surely, when wealth and the wealthy are honored in the city, virtue and the good men less honor able. What happens to be honored is practiced, and what is without honor is neglected" (The Republic, 551a-b, p. 228).
The love of victory and the honor that came with it is now replaced by the love of money and the value that is conferred on the wealthy. The poor man is dishonored. Begging and stealing become the poor man's ways. The wealthy produce new truth that humiliates and describes poor.
The wealthy oligarch does not have specialty. He is a jack of all trades. When mood moves him all trades, including war making, about which he knows nothing. The oligarch's excessive desire comes at the expense of producing poverty, neighborhood thieves, cutpurses, temple robbers.
The streets of Addis are marked reminders of this reality By the yardstick of life in Addis nothing seems to have changed. Rather, the question that Plato asked in The Republic remains puzzling.
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