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It strikes me that Popper's critique of The Republic (i.e.: that it's a communist anthill ruled by self-interested philosophers) echoes the comments made by Thrasymachus near the start of the Dialogue, in which he bluntly asserted that "justice is in the interest of the stronger," in essence because the rulers of a society will always establish laws that define justice as coterminous with the interest of the ruling class. Socrates distracted Thrasymachus from this point, but in the end it seems that the result of the Dialogue bore the canny old sophist's predictions out. Left alone, a room full of philosophers invented a city ruled by. . .philosophers, with a system of draconian laws that favored. . . philosophers. ---Thirdsyphon |
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