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Comment: “Until philosophers are kings, or kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, cities will never have rest from evil.”

  • UPSC 2000
  • Western Political Thought

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Socrates utters this in Book V of Plato's Republic (473c–d) as the third and greatest "wave" of paradox, after equal education for women and the common family of guardians. It answers the question of how the just city could ever exist: only when political power and wisdom meet in the same hands. The claim is…

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