Selfishness

It's interesting to see how Plato describes the degeneration of the government. It's also interesting to see that the downfall is brought about by selfishness and a lack of contentment. Plato talks about how the various forms of government change as the rulers begin to focus more on the accumulation of wealth. Their greed eventually leads to distrust, revolution, and tyranny. I think back to what Plato said in book five about literally making the entire city a family. As strange and shocking as his methods were in doing so, it is actually makes you think. Consider the early church. The Bible says that people actually sold their own property to provide for those in need. If we overcame selfishness to the same degree today, how different would our government be?

I commented on Abbey's.