A quote about philosophers and political power

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“The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers” (Republic, Plato, 326a-326b).

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Lenin and Stalin are what you get when you take Hegel's philosophy, filter it through Marx, and have a leader believe the result.

That is: Spare us philosophers with political power, or at least those who believe such appallingly misguided philosophies.

AnimalMuppet, I was going to respond. But then it doesn't matter since you're an idiot

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Might you consider elaborating?

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