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FOOTNOTES
(l)Plato, "The Crito," Great Dialogues of Plato,
eds. Eric Warmington and Philip Rouse (New York:
Mentor, 1956), p. 456.
(2)Ibid. The totalitarian implications of
P I a to' s phi los 0 P h Y a r. e mad e .. c I ear in' KariP0 pper's
excellent, if controversial, The Open Society and its
Enemies, The Spell of Plato, Vol. 1, (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1966).
(3)Mulford Sibley, Political Ideas and
Ide 0 log i es (N e w Yo r k: Ha r per and Row, 19 70 ), p. 61.
Also see George Sabine, A History of Political Theory
(New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1937), p. 35: The ancie
n t Gr e e k s c h 0 0 Is"rna r k the beg inn i n g 0 fEur 0 pean phi­
10sophy, especially in its relations with politics and
o the r soc i a 1st u die s • I nth i s fie I d the wr i tings 0 f
Plato and Aristotle were the first great pioneering
operations in the European intellect."
(4)ln Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision
(Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1969), p. 40.
(5)Wolin, pp. 38-43.
(6)Plato, "The Republic," Great Dialogues of
Plato, eds. Eric Warmington and Philip Rouse (New
York: Mentor, 1956), p. 233.
(7)The identity is not, of course, accidental.
Rousseau acknowledges that his primary influence was
PIa to. See Robe r t Ni s bet, " Ro us sea u and the Pol i tica I
Tradi t ion," in Tradition and Revolt (New York: Random
House, 1968), p. 29 fn 22. Nisbet's article is the
c I ear est and be s t pre sen tat ion 0 f Ro usseau's tho ugh t
that I have read. While Nisbet makes clear the totalitar
ian imp 1 i cat ionsin Ro usseau' s tho ught, the t remendous
impact of Rousseau on later European thought and
action, especially during the French Revolution, is
out 1 i ned i n J. L. Ta 1m0 n 's rna s t e r f u1study, The 0 rigins
of Totalitarian Democracy (New York: Norton, 1970).
(8)Jean-Jacque Rousseau, The Social Contract
(New York: Washington Square Press, 1967), p. 17.
(9)Ibid., p. 18 •
. (10)Plato, "The Statesman," Political and Social
Philosophy, eds. Charles King and James McGilvray (New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1973) pp. 36 and 41. We need not
deal here with how the select few are to be discovered.
Suffice it to say that in Book II Section 7 and Book
III Section 8 of TIThe Republic,TI Plato does outline in
considerable detai I a rigorous educational ordeal for
this purpose.
(11)Plato, l1The Republic,TI pp. 298-99.
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