as the election...

draws near, i have come across a quote from plato:

'there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.'

i have said this before in a sense. now i'm not advocating that i, as a philosopher, ought to rule. rather what i argue for, or at least have examined, is that the majority of the candidates have all gotten degrees in law, and now i am noticing that there is at least one (that i know of) that is a minister in some way (but that's not what i want to speak of now). however in dealing with these lawyers; what is the lawyers goal?

to win the case. to argue for their point of view. not what the truth may be. but rather what will benefit them. to win the case. or in this sense to get re-elected. to 'spin' the truth in a way that will benefit them. to find loop holes in things. to get around the truth.

in hobbes' opus the leviathan, which is mostly a political work, he begins with an understanding of what the governing govern...man. to begin with an understanding of the nature of man. ask a politician what they govern, and what is the nature of that. that would be fun, to hear that answer.

[shalom...]