11th Hour Brainstorms

You know you're desperate when you start pretending your Socrates in order to figure out what the hell you're supposed to be writing about.

An excerpt from the work on my current paper:

Self Dialogue:

What do I want to write?
- A defense of the democratic man.
How do I defend him?
- By arguing that Plato’s description of the desires is inaccurate.
How is it inaccurate?
- Plato fails to give the democratic man the ability to discriminate between necessary and unnecessary desires.
- He also neglects the obvious fact that the moderation of desire in the oligarchy produces a society that cannot tolerate philosophy, while the equalization of desires, however monstrous in immoderate behavior encouraged, permits philosophy.
- Further, Plato does an inadequate job of resolving conflicts of desire.
- Additionally, there is disunity in Plato’s argument for the entropy proceeding through his account of regimes, thanks to his flawed conception of desire and its application to the tyrant as least unified due to his exercise of pure desire.
What evidence do you have to support any of these claims?
- Ooooooof, below the belt.

Yes, indeedy...back to work.