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as required for Kallipolis, for the just city?
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Let me say, I am by no means convinced that the idea
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for the philosopher-king is an impossibility
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or is intended as a kind of absurdity.
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Plato himself, remember, made a number of trips to Sicily
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to serve as the advisor to a king there,
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Dionysius, and all of these missions failed
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and left him deeply dispirited.
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The ambition in some ways to unite philosophy and
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politics has been a recurring dream
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of political philosophy ever since Plato.
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Socrates says he will be drowned in laughter but many