This would be true if he didn’t suggest humans, as neither entirely mortal nor divine, are incapable of true wisdom (the criterion of being a Guardian), and if Republic didn’t end with the suggestion that it isn’t a political philosophy but a fiction serving only to guide individual moral behavior.
Not to beat the allegations but refine and more accurately target them: misinterpreters of Plato set us on the path and Plato’s partly to blame for not better anticipating and preventing likely misinterpretations.
(There’s an important broader debate here: people don’t become evil because they’re philosophically persuaded to it, they misuse philosophy to justify evil. So identifying philosophers and texts as the root of an evil misdirects attempts to alleviate evil toward false or secondary causes.)
Reminds me of the time our CEO used the Myth of Sisyphus to explain how we were going to get through the pandemic. It was on PowerPoint, illustrated with an image of Sisyphus and his boulder.
Lotta bangers: “This to avoid having but one king of the whole world, we shall run into a liberty of having as many Kings as there are men in the world, which upon the matter, is to have no King at all…”
This is from the school of management that thinks how it works is managers, leaders, tell people what to do and they do it. This is the model of people who have never done it. I in fact was suddenly thrust into managing three people when I was young, I was a disaster for this reason.
I'm not an expert. However, I refer you to my profile picture.
This is bollocks. He says "the requirement of a formal system is often forgotten" and then immediately forgets it.
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Am I?
Actually, I might be too weak!
Wait, here HE is
http://davidmhart.com/liberty/OtherWorks/Filmer/T141-Filmer-Anarchy/
Apropos of nothing, some years ago, a friend wrote for Forbes and said he was paid on a pay-per-click model.
New business idea: "Certificate in Incomplete Management"
but this is fucking stupid
This is bollocks. He says "the requirement of a formal system is often forgotten" and then immediately forgets it.