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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
John Petrov Plamenatz was a Serbian political philosopher from Montenegro, who spent most of his academic life at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his analysis of political obligation and his theory of democracy.
The store of wisdom does not consist
of hard coins which keep their shape
as they pass from hand to hand;
it consists of ideas and doctrines
whose meanings change
with the minds that entertain them.