After Socrates establishes the guardian class as the highest class in society, he next moves on to what the requirements for rulers of the city. They should be selected from the guardian class. From the guardian class, there is a certain type of person that is fit to be a ruler. This is the philosopher. He says, “I think, unless philosophers rule as kings in cities, or those whom we now call kings and rulers genuinely and adequately study philosophy… Otherwise the city we have been describing will never grow” (p. 87). The philosophers in a city are those who are the most knowledgeable. The have been immersed in intensive education in order to stay in the guardian class, and now move to the top segment of that class. Philosophers have true knowledge;
