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Wow, interesting. "Plato further taught the tyrant the converse: a man enslaved to another could preserve happiness if he possessed a just and well-ordered sou
by 8bitsrule 6y ago
Wow, interesting.
"Plato further taught the tyrant the converse: a man enslaved to another could preserve happiness if he possessed a just and well-ordered soul. Plato’s first visit to Sicily ended in dark irony: Dionysius I sold the philosopher into slavery. He figured that if Plato’s belief were true, then his enslavement would be a matter of indifference...."
And so Plato discovered the limits to speaking truth to power.
- watwut 6y agoWell, if it was truth to power, then he was happy. More likely, he discovered flip side of rationalizing and excusing mistreating others.