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Plato is thought to have said that there would be no very good government until philosophers were kings or kings philosophers.
His student, Aristotle, believed that if the opportunity came to a philosopher of guiding the policy of a state, either directly or by instructing a young prince, he could not in conscience reject it. A legend was born and Aristotle came to be thought of as he
'who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world'*
In Alexander's time, of course, to be a philosopher meant to be a scientist. And to be a scientist then as now meant to be an expert in logic and rational thinking.
Does the theory have merit? It is worth noting that at that time Macedonia was the strongest power in Europe.
* J. A. K. Thomson, The Ethics of Aristotle, Penguin Classics, 1974 |
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