Does Plato succeed in demonstrating that philosophers make the best rulers?
Date Submitted: 04/04/2002 07:46:50
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 7 pages (1886 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 7 pages (1886 words)
In Plato's most famous work, the 'Republic', he puts forward the view that the ideal state, embodying the highest and best capabilities of human social life, can really be achieved, if the right people are put in charge: "There will be no end to the troubles of humanity...till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus …
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…nature will remain true to its vocation and persevere to the end" (494 a), and therefore a rejection of the claim that philosophers make the best rulers.
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