The Chariot Scholar

For Hobbes, truth is created by the state because you are creating objectivity. For Plato, the state is a mechanism for pursuing a truth that exists independently of everything else. A good state will get more people closer to the truth and give them an opportunity to do philosophy necessary to get those glimpses of it. And a bad state will make it impossible for anyone to do this - just as Athenian democracy eventually tells Socrates to kill himself after corrupting the youth of Athens. I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to come up with a city where Socrates can be murdered and doesn't have to become a king so that what happens in Syracuse could happen in Athens.