Epistocracy is a type of democracy that is both favored and opposed and many theorists including Plato, Aristotle, Mill, and Locke would have their own opinions on the idea. Plato believed that only a few people could get through the ignorance to see what the world truly is. It is for this reason that he would be a strong believer in Epistocracy. Plato was a believer of hierarchy and having the wise people be the leaders, because to him, the common people were ignorant. Because Plato believed this, he would follow the idea of epistocratic government and only giving the intellectual and well-informed people of the land the right to vote. The philosophers are the ones with informed reason and, “Informed reason, according to Plato,
Epistocracy is a type of democracy that is both favored and opposed and many theorists including Plato, Aristotle, Mill, and Locke would have their own opinions on the idea. Plato believed that only a few people could get through the ignorance to see what the world truly is. It is for this reason that he would be a strong believer in Epistocracy. Plato was a believer of hierarchy and having the wise people be the leaders, because to him, the common people were ignorant. Because Plato believed this, he would follow the idea of epistocratic government and only giving the intellectual and well-informed people of the land the right to vote. The philosophers are the ones with informed reason and, “Informed reason, according to Plato,