LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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People who have wisdom should rule the city
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People who have wisdom and are educated to rule should rule the city
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Socrates was the king of philosophy
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Plato was the king of philosophy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Only those who do not wish for political power can be trusted with it. Thus, the key to the notion of the “philosopher king” is that the philosopher is the only person who can be trusted to rule well.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plato believed that philosophers would be the best rulers of society because they’re able to understand true goodness and justice in a way that other people cannot. Because they would understand that the greatest self-benefit is living virtuously, they would act out morally and not out of self-interest.
Detailed explanation-3: -Plato insisted that politics and philosophy ought to be safe for one another. A philosopher ruler would make a wise legislator and frame laws in accordance with the Idea of Good. For Plato, an Ideal State ruled by the philosopher ruler was a divine institution perfectly worthy of emulation and imitation.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to Plato, wisdom makes use of and requires knowledge of Forms, but its purpose is to make good judgments about the perceptible realm. Aristotle, by contrast, explicitly denies that wisdom is aimed at action; wisdom proper deals with the abstract, fundamental metaphysical truths of reality.
Detailed explanation-5: -Plato regards education as a means to achieve justice, both individual justice and social justice. According to Plato, individual justice can be obtained when each individual develops his or her ability to the fullest. In this sense, justice means excellence. For the Greeks and Plato, excellence is virtue.