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Massimo Pigliucci on Why Virtue Matters
The Daily Stoic
Why Socrates Decided Not to Get Into Politics, Right?
If you decide to get into politics and to statesmanship, then you have to do it with a moral compass in mind. Otherwise you become a ruthless self-serving narcissist like alzibiotics. But at the same time, you have to realize as Cicero says: We don't live in Plato's Republic but we're much closer to Romulus. And so I might as well not go in the directions that are going to be deleterious or inefficacious. That may be one reason why Socrates didn't get into politics himself; he thought his best chance was to influence people indirectly.
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