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Platoʹs Interpretation of the Association Between Writing and Democracy

Inseparability of writing and democracy in classic Greece as an historic fact, drew Platoʹs mind to introducing his own narration and interpretation of the association between the two notions in the framework of the two fields of philosophy of language and political philosophy. Through identifying the spirit of the era and the transition of Greek civilization from an oral and speech phase to that of writing, he demonstrates in the most manifest layer. its meta-languistic relation with a special kind of police or citizen-city-state. In other words. writing speech in beginning and throughout its course is closely tied with democratic regime or political order, and cannot be separated therefrom . In this context it seems that we can reach the common points through two aspects of origin and characteristics of writing and democracy: the twoʹs affiliated and auxiliary origin to a maker and father called oligarchy and writing and their shared point in the two characteristics of equality and liberty (where appropriate) in reaction to inequality, confinement to exigencies and necessary needs.