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And that leads, as it were, to the third and final wave of paradox of
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the Kallipolis which is the famous proposal for the philosopher-king.
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What is Plato without the philosopher-king?
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What is the Republic without the philosopher-king?
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Unless the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings,
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genuinely philosophize, there will be no rest from the ills
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for the cities, he says, right?
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Socrates presents this proposal, again, as outlandish.
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He says he expects to be drowned in laughter.
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And this has led some readers to suggest that the proposal for
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philosophers' kings is ironical.
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That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways,