[section_title title=Totalitarian Autocracy] ‘Philosophers [must] become kings…or those now called kings [must]…genuinely and adequately philosophize.’ (The Republic, 5.473) Although righteousness in Plato’s didacticism can be argued Karl Popper has indeed mercilessly critiqued Plato to have favored the legitimization of totalitarian autocracy. Nevertheless it’s imaginable how difficult it must have been on the part of philosophers [...]


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