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RE: Philosophy 101: How to Read Plato?
Great post! Plato also believed that there had to be assigned roles in a perfect polis (city). Where people are divided into 1 of 3 groups, workers, soldiers, guardians/philosopher kings. Where Guardians are at the top with the highest epistemological status, they were philosophers dedicated to making decisions for the polis. He was also very against democracy, like most of our fathers of philosophy and politics.
Exactly! Which is why his aesthetics is predicated on the agenda of "clarifying justice" by prescribing what a just state is. This agenda is, at the same time, a critique of then existing form of government, the original Greek demoncracy, which most philosophers of that time are critical of. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were all critical of Greek democracy. Thanks for the input. @jefft