Philosopher ideal world for the Information Age?

I prefer Ptah's approach.

Also Plato wasn't really a big fan of democracy. That's kind of the point in the Republic--humanity needs to be ruled by its higher nature, and can't be trusted to govern itself based on its own desires.

(And this critique is more the point than a proposal for an actual system, IMO. Also it's a metaphor for the individual soul and all that.)

Not my opinion, but his.

"Simple logic" can't produce a just arrangement for governing human societies. Reason can enable individuals to live relatively ungoverned lives, though imperfectly.

The "philosopher-kings" idea has been a dead duck for millennia.

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