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Socrates expounds on his idea of the philosopher kings in Plato’s best known work, The Republic. The Philosopher Kings were not supposed to be a tyrannical ruling class. They were envisioned as a kind of guardians and expected to live humble lives without riches. But the supremacy of the ruling class would be irrelevant, the ideas of would be supreme. Their would be a totalitarian mandate to obey the laws of the city. Laws that were far stretching and dominated nearly every aspect of life. One of the major underlying flaws of Plato’s Republic was that it was to based on a lie, a willingly acknowledged lie that Plato called “the noble lie.” The “noble lie” is people are made out of different metals. It was to be taught that the rulers were made out of precious metals and the masses were made out of base metal, basically that they are inherently inferior.

In his utopia, Socrates would also implement strict censorship. Suppressing all ideas that could corrupt the minds against the ideals of the city. All poets would be expelled from the city, but it was o.k. because they could come back if they swore to uphold the ideals of the city and become sort of poet laureates and representatives of the city, using their work to exalt the Philosopher Kings and the superiority of the system.

Whats up with the tinychat?

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What a fag.

The day finally here, death to Obama, long live the messiah Glen Beck.

National Review, Weekly Standard, Highlights

I can write novels to.

I'm reading the Glass Bead game and I was wondering is their any way you can actually play this? The descriptions give you lots of details about the game. I recently found someone who claimed he knew how to play it. But when we got back to his house he wanted to play what he called "the Ass Bead Game."

With Sartre, you must start with Dostoevsky.