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Hobbes, Plato, and the Rise of the State

Political Theory 101

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Philosophy and Morality

For Plato, ignorance is the root and stem of every evil. You create a very hierarchical society that involves slavery to escape from ignorance, which is evil. I think there is one tension that some people draw out that philosophers shouldn't just do philosophy. They should also do politics. To be a philosopher, King. And that gets us into the relationship between politics and morality.

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