PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- In order to preserve the nature of the ideal city, to keep degenerative changes from occurring, the guardians must be the wisest and most virtuous.
- They must be philosophers, “inasmuch as philosophers only are able to grasp the eternal and unchangeable, and those who wander in the region of the many and variable are not philosophers…”
- The majority of people are simply too blind to govern themselves.