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Political degeneration
Political degeneration is Plato's account in Books VIII and IX of the Republic of how the ideal state (aristocracy ruled by philosopher-kings) progressively decays through four increasingly corrupt regimes: timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny.
Tyrannical soul
The tyrannical soul is the most disordered psychological type in Plato's taxonomy, dominated by lawless eros (unbounded desire), in which the rational and spirited parts of the soul are entirely subjugated to the appetitive part's most extreme impulses.