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Plato put it like this in his "Laws": “Laws are made to instruct the good, and in the hope that there may be no need of them; also to control the bad, whose har
by sarkron 5y ago
Plato put it like this in his "Laws": “Laws are made to instruct the good, and in the hope that there may be no need of them; also to control the bad, whose hardness of heart will not be hindered from crime.”
- chmsky00 5y agoI wonder how he’d speak of a supposedly even better educated society stealing the future of the next due to circular validation of our waste filled industrialism.
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoGiven that most Greeks of that era believed they lived after the decline of a golden age, I suspect he might be be more understanding than most people today.
- beepbooptheory 5y agoIn fact, Plato himself lived through a ruthless and bloody revolution that killed his friends and ended in the reign of the 14 tyrants!
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- munk-a 5y agoPlato at the Googleplex might be of interest to you - it's got its rough points but it brings a lot of his philosophy forward to be more relatable.
- B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago> stealing the future of the next How would the next generation like having a pristine Earth, without any infrastructure whatsoever? No roads, no buildings, no domesticated animals, no libraries, nothing but nature. No pyramids, no poems, all the oil and coal in the ground, "noble savages" all around.
- smokey_circles 5y agoI mean, I guess you could say the pyramids were built with green energy. It's a strange twist on slavery, but creative.
- hutzlibu 5y agoBut note that "good" is quite relative here, as for Plato good laws also meant, keeping the slaves down in their place by law.