Isocrates set distance between the democratic ideal and the reality that he lived in: although he reaffirmed his faith in the Athenian democracy as it had been based by Solon and Cleisthenes, he looked with disdain at the Athenian State of those days, since it seemed to him that it was a degradation .
Isócrates marcó distancia entre el ideal democrático y la realidad que le tocó vivir: si bien reafirmaba su fe en la democracia ateniense como había sido fincada por Solón y Clístenes, miraba al Estado ateniense de sus días con desdén, pues le parecía que se trata de una degradación .