Dude! The Republic and the Philosopher King concept totally come to my mind whenever I think about this question. Good call!

I agree with Percival here, that we need to master ourselves before we can ever delegate any collective power to an authority(Assuming of course, that any fully self sufficient person would want to). Assumedly,…

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Definitely re-read it! It’s been a few years since I’ve read it myself, but I found it fascinating. Plato’s description of Justice that he lays out in that book is still my preferred definition to this day

I’ve been meaning to re-read Plato’s The Republic as I haven’t read it since college. On my current to-do reading list…

Plato’s concept of a philosopher king is indeed an interesting one as he lays out the faults of all other common political systems from pure democracy to despotism. There is a book I intend to order from H W Percival called Democracy Is Self-Government which postulates the notion that we have a sort of democratic governance within us with…

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