The Kaleidoscopic Democratic Soul

Plato in Dialogue with Whitman, Tocqueville, and Others

“Kaleidoscopic Democratic Soul” is a term of my own coinage, referring to a person’s soul, which we might also call his psyche or character, when it has been shaped, due to the influence of democracy, to seek out change and variation, and to manifest many ways of life in one.  This shaping either occurs half-consciously, by way of the soul being raised …