... social system, which can not function without politics, it proves Plato's claim that human beings are political animals. The importance of existing though freedom, knowledge, and enlightenment is accentuated by Plato on The Republic. He uses the cave allegory to highlight how human beings will not survive the darkness ... unless they act together and be led by a philosopher king who leads them to the light. "Don't you think that the true captain will be called a real stargazer, a babbler, and a good-for-nothing by those who sail in ships governed in that way" (plato ... , VI,484). The f...

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