Yeah reading Plato’s republic, where he writes about the need for military culture and people being born with certain souls which sort them into a hierarchy was insane. It’s so strange for him to be one of the most known philosophers, yet his actual philosophy is so proto-fascist and no one ever mentions that.
seriously wtf
Yeah reading Plato’s republic, where he writes about the need for military culture and people being born with certain souls which sort them into a hierarchy was insane. It’s so strange for him to be one of the most known philosophers, yet his actual philosophy is so proto-fascist and no one ever mentions that.
I definitely impress on my students that Plato was a goddamn fascist whenever I teach his stuff.
Liberal philosophy in a nutshell.