In Book V, lines 473d-e, Socrates proposes the ideal republic when he states, “Unless,” I said, “the philosophers rule as kings...and adequately philosophize, and political power and philosophy coincide in the same place… my dear Glaucon, nor I think for human kind, nor will the regime we have now described in speech ever come forth from nature, insofar as possible, and see the light of the sun.” In other words, Socrates’ perfect city consists of philosophers becoming kings because, in doing so, they are capable of interlacing their philosophies and political power. This then allows for the kings to use their attributes to use the truth that they’re exposed to in the light of the sun, not for their own self-interests, but for the
In Book V, lines 473d-e, Socrates proposes the ideal republic when he states, “Unless,” I said, “the philosophers rule as kings...and adequately philosophize, and political power and philosophy coincide in the same place… my dear Glaucon, nor I think for human kind, nor will the regime we have now described in speech ever come forth from nature, insofar as possible, and see the light of the sun.” In other words, Socrates’ perfect city consists of philosophers becoming kings because, in doing so, they are capable of interlacing their philosophies and political power. This then allows for the kings to use their attributes to use the truth that they’re exposed to in the light of the sun, not for their own self-interests, but for the