True Guardian in Republic, Euthyphro and Crito
In the Republic, Socrates creates an imaginary world which is completely different from that time’s Greece. He defines a new type of rulers called true guardians who are supposed to rule this new world and fully determines their characteristics and calls them philosopher – king. Because Socrates is also a philosopher, in a deep analysis, based on the Republic, Euthyphro and Crito, I will look for whether Socrates fits his own description of a true philosopher or not.
First of all, Socrates says that philosophers “…love all such learning and are not willing to give up any part of it, whether large or small, more valuable or less so” [Republic, p.159, 485b]. For him, being lover of any kind of learning is the major characteristics of a true guardian. Anyone, who is deprived of the true knowledge, of course, cannot be a guardian; they are blind and inferior man [Republic, p.158, 484d]. Accordingly, in the......
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