Great post! Plato also believed that there had to be assigned roles in a perfect polis (city). Where people are divided into 1 of 3 groups, workers, soldiers, guardians/philosopher kings. Where Guardians are at the top with the highest epistemological status, they were philosophers dedicated to making decisions for the polis. He was also very against democracy, like most of our fathers of philosophy and politics.
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