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Comment: “For, no law or ordinance is mightier than knowledge.”. (Plato)

  • UPSC 1993
  • Western Political Thought

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The words belong to the Athenian Stranger in Book IX of Plato's Laws (875c–d), and their setting is ironic. If a man were born able both to know the common good and always to prefer it, he would need no laws above him, for knowledge must be sovereign and reason should be slave to nothing.…

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  • The Sovereignty of Knowledge
  • Why Plato Chose Law Anyway
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