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democracies, and that is why democracy runs into problems. The alternative he proposes is epistocracy , the rule of the knowers: There is a whole variety of epistocratic models of government – from a rule of experts or philosopher kings, as in Plato’s Republic (Plato, 2000) – to a system of plural votes
. 8 See Friedrich, Der Gehalt der Sprachform, p. 65–139. It is a noteworthy fact that precisely in this semester, Martin Heidegger reads lectures in an important course on Plato’s ‘Sophist’ at the University of Marburg. Was Megrelidze aware of Heidegger’s transformation of phenomenology? In the