Short Take: The Idea of the Philosopher-King, And The Poison of Divided Virtue

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Maybe the most important Concept in all of western thought is that of the Philosopher-King.

And the significance, of course, is that he's BOTH.

There isn't a priestly hidden class of eunuchs and foreign ethnics doing his policy and thinking for him, there isn't a caste system where he's the highest Kshatriya, but he needs t…