Platonism and Christianity with Lou Markos
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Plato's Ideal of the Philosopher King
The real leaders of society, for a long time, were the people who devoted their life to contemplation. These are the people that people look to as the centre of knowledge. The only way you can rule justly is if you have a very clear vision of what justice is with a capital j. They're the ones that can see through the phony justice. We used to respect professors, and a lot of acient countrys still respect teachers,. Now the professor becomes the etert, the rebel, the revolutionary, the person that is, the cynic and sceptic. That breaks everything down. I mean, again, we are raising people to think the more educated you be become
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