00:00Plato's Republic he went deeply into this question who should be commanding
00:05authority in a society and he went into this question because he had seen
00:08Socrates his teacher being killed in front of him and he had seen that
00:12Socrates was killed through a democratic process it was not that the judges were
00:17too keen on sentencing him it was the people who wanted him dead had it been
00:22left to the judges the judges would have probably let him go there was a divided
00:26verdict but the verdict would have been in Socrates favor he would have been
00:31allowed to live but the masses wanted him dead so Plato had this problem rather
00:36this contempt for everything that that just gave credence to your body that
00:41just because you have a body that does not mean you are eligible to have a say
00:46it is not your body that must count it is your mental stature that must count
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