“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
- Plato, 'The Republic'
For aeons people have considered the following questions to be the primary problems of organising a society:
- How should we make large-scale decisions?
- What system of governance should we use?
- What/who should have power?
As loose thinking on the subject accumulated into the field of political philosophy, many ideas converged on a fantasy: power should be bestowed upon the wisest, what is optimal should be considered and decided... (read 585 more words →)