>REAL PHILOSOPHER-RULERS HAVE NEVER BEEN TRIED!!!
>The most important thing to teach a student is virtue.>Take for example my student Alcibiades, who betrayed four different polises in a row.>Or my other student, Critias, who betrayed his polis and ruled it as a tyrannical despot.>Or my other other student, Aristippus, who dedicated his entire life to degenerate hedonism.
>>24831030well, he triedand failedlike two or three times
>>24831120He was never the ruler merely the advisor.
>>24831116Don't forget he is also related to two of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens
>>24831030>Sir, there are ICBMs inbound to several major American cities.. we need your decision now, sir.. sir??>Hmmm
>>24831116lol
>>24831154If he was able to raise a child for this purpose maybe it could have been done. Aristotle had Alexander while young. But Alexander would not heed the philosophers instruction to treat non Greeks as slaves and so was poisoned by Aristotle after attempting to make his finest men marry daughters of the defeated Persians. With great shame at his failure Aristotle did this deed. Even then. Perhaps Aristotle did not hold enough sway over young Alexander to properly philosophize him.
>>24831116>>24831291Don't forget Athenian democoracy voted for or allowed all these events to happen. Starting to seem it was getting taken advantage of a bit.
>>24831154Philosopher-rulers have been tried though. Most notably Marcus Overratedius, who produced as his son and successor one of the worst Roman emperors, and Julian the Apostate who quite actively tried to embody the Platonic ideal of the philosopher-ruler. Neither of these can be called successes.
>>24831030>You guys know Socrates? He's like the wisest guy ever, so what do you have to say Socrates?>'I completely agree with everything Plato says'>DAMN that's so crazy! He just agrees with me guys!
