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<p>In Plato's Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual, and personal virtues and are appropriately educated, surely no one could doubt the wisdom of entrusting to them the governance of cities. Although it is widely-and reasonably-assumed that all the Rep
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- Author
- Roslyn Weiss
- Publisher
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801465611
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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