The SpectreM to Comics · 4 months agoPlato vs Democracyexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down112
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minus-squarekaffiene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·4 months agoWell, no. Diogenes was a twat. Plato wasn’t expecting people to be idiots. His idea was that philosopher kings would have to live amongst the ordinary people of the state. They would be dependent on the good will of the governed.
Well, no. Diogenes was a twat. Plato wasn’t expecting people to be idiots. His idea was that philosopher kings would have to live amongst the ordinary people of the state. They would be dependent on the good will of the governed.