timocracy Meaning & Definition

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  • A timocracy, in choosing its leaders, is inclining rather to the more high-spirited and simple-minded type, who are better suited for war.

  • That is how a timocracy becomes an oligarchy.

  • They are aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny.

  • An oligarchy is originated by extending tendencies already evident in a timocracy.

  • The timocracy values war insofar as it satisfies a love of victory and honor.

  • Those governments are timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny.

  • The timocracy involves a lot of compromise, between wealth and virtue.

  • It begins with the dismissal of timocracy, a sort of authoritarian regime, not unlike a military dictatorship.

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