id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dn39x06260s Jakub Voboril Democratic Political Leadership and Education in Thucydides and Plato 1904 .txt text/plain 174 8 58 I conclude that the root of many, if not all, of these differences lies in Thucydides's willing acceptance and Socrates's insistent rejection of the common sense of ordinary political life. In an attempt to answer these questions, I turn to the ancient Greek political thinkers Thucydides and Plato. cache/dn39x06260s.txt txt/dn39x06260s.txt