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Ep. 60: Might and Right

Young Heretics

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It's All Just Power, All the Way Down

The good ruler is not who looks to his own advantage, but who loos to the advantage of his fhis citizens. This seems basic and obvious because it is so basic to the way that we think about political philosophy. But you can see thrugh ymachus and our own modern sophists who want to say: 'It's all just power' And by putting in argument against thosichian socrates this feels like plato reminding himself he didn't believe this in the just days when Socrates was willing to go for death for justice.

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