The just city "will be governed, not like the majority of cities, by people who fight over shadows and struggle against one another in order to rule, but by people who are awake rather than dreaming."# Plato argues that the reluctance the philosopher king has to rule makes him the most fit to rule, for he will rule as a sense of obligation rather than for personal gain and power. #This insures that the city is governed according to the laws of reason and not according to the lust of unnecessary
The just city "will be governed, not like the majority of cities, by people who fight over shadows and struggle against one another in order to rule, but by people who are awake rather than dreaming."# Plato argues that the reluctance the philosopher king has to rule makes him the most fit to rule, for he will rule as a sense of obligation rather than for personal gain and power. #This insures that the city is governed according to the laws of reason and not according to the lust of unnecessary