George SartonThinkers

Plato is a disgruntled old man, full of political rancor, fearing and hating the crowd and above all their demagogues; his prejudices had crystallized and he had become an old doctrinaire, unable to see anything but the reflections of his own personality and to hear anything but the echoes of his own thoughts.

Plato is a writer who, in his time of writing, was witnessing a social revolution and he could not bear it at all. His main concern was: how could one stop it?.