Question:
What do you think of Socrates negative view of democracy? Is he right that democracies have no values? If he isn't right, how would values be established in a democracy? Do you think Socrates is actually serious? Remember, Athens was a democracy. But then Athens lost the Peloponnesian war to Sparta. Do you think Socrates was suggesting that the Athenians should try to be more like the Spartans (because it does kind of look like that if you think back to the documentary you watched on Sparta and then what Socrates says about this city he is constructing).