53: Politics of Plato's Republic
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Socrates's Mythos of the Greeks
Socrates's political philosophy has to be understood as capitulating to the notion that culture or ideology or whatever you want to call it is where the social change has to first be affected. You can tinker with systems but this won't change anything so long as the wrong people with wayward desires and unchecked ambition are allowed to compete within those systems. It's by those who are the wisest taking charge of the education of the coming generations that the society's entire political structure can be based upon right. The unity of the good ends up reflected in this unity of society and in reason as the rightful ruling principle in all things. And so education is of chief importance once again and therefore reason
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