Sentences with phrase «philosopher kings»

The choice that we have to make is not between scientific freedom and science governed by a wise group of philosopher kings.

In fact, Munger is one of the few people you can claim is a modern - day philosopher king when it comes to both investing and life in general.

god was invented by man, by philosopher kings to keep the masses in check.

Power flowing to the centre tends to isolate political representatives from the citizenry, rather than turn them into philosopher kings.

These leaders — modern - day Platonic philosopher kings — will manage us to success and happiness and justice.

State supreme court judges are hardly philosopher kings.

Assuming some visionary philosopher King rode in with a mandate to hedge all risk, with total operational control and the budget to see it through, they would have had the ability to go out and buy a fair amount of coverage in the ABX indices for FP (and maybe structure some custom swap with a large bank) and begin an immediate «run - off» at the Securities Lending portfolio.

as self - appointed Despot Philosopher King I hereby decree, from here on until the end of Western civilization

How did we get to a world where the country's elected Prime Minister is consistently brought to heel by a gang of unelected robed philosopher kings?

To those gathered at the Ottawa Charter conference, McMurtry's wish list probably came across as enlightened succession planning by a grand philosopher king.

Still, let's hope that the current not - even - close - to - philosopher king doesn't have reason to consider declaring won't have to declare the War Measures Act.

He started with the company in 1998, working with numerous artists, including Philosopher Kings, Jacksoul and Fefe Dobson.

Aurelius was one of the great emperors of Rome, known to many as the Philosopher King.

The philosopher king's welcome Harper received in the U.S. was far warmer than his treatment at home, where the PM had, three months earlier, barely averted a coup by the opposition parties.

It just adds to the myth of the philosopher king.

It's impossible to spot the tyrants from the philosopher kings in real time.

Steve Jobs was our generation's archetype of the dominant CEO, the philosopher king who surpasses the performance of more democratic corporate leadership.

And Plato himself follows Socrates when he argues against the philosopher kings having any regard for money and finds decline when some of those kings turn to moneymaking.

The character is one step removed from reality, and the philosopher king is twice removed.

The basic political premise of techno - politics is that the classic question regarding competing claims to rule has been decisively answered: instead of Plato's philosopher king we get its emasculated modern descendant, the rational bureaucrat.

Another excerpt from some recent work: The basic political premise of techno - politics is that the classic question regarding competing claims to rule has been decisively answered: instead of Plato's philosopher king we get its emasculated modern descendant, the rational bureaucrat.

And today, his love looks like an on call schedule, like hard labour for a philosopher king, like late nights and calluses, like whistling while you work and finding joy in the sacrifices of one's own plans.

«It is possible that Archytas was Plato's model for the -LSB-...] «Philosopher King.»»

She's less worried about the political dominance of a philosopher king than moral merit being strictly tied to intellect.

There are plenty of political philosophy lecturers who sign up to the beliefs of Plato and his philosopher kings.

A caste of enlightened «philosopher kings», as Plato recommended, was unnecessary when you have an intelligent, involved public.

The public lecture series was entitled «Philosopher kings?

As such, creating artificial class of who is allowed to rule (the idea isn't new, by the way - see Plato's Philosopher King) is antithetical to democratic form of governance.

That was Awo's compass to greatness; and that may well be replicated again, if the Buhari reforms succeed, even if Buhari is no philosopher king in the mould of Awo.

«At the heart of this manifesto is a big idea: that citizenship is not forged through the dependence on the state as espoused by new Labour and its philosopher king, Anthony Giddens, but through the empowering act of the state granting responsibility to its citizens.

And these philosopher kings were people who bore a remarkable resemblance to Plato.

In his Republic, Plato wrote that society should be ruled by what he called «philosopher kings».

The show found much of its comic success through Darius (Lakeith Stanfield), Alfred's weird - time consigliere / right - hand - man / philosopher king.

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It will be this next generation of students, philosopher kings and queens, to borrow a conceit from Plato, who will solve for what is authentically human amid the conditions they did not create.

The philosopher king holds himself in high esteem.

So maybe if we got one of Gates» philosopher kings to run the federal bureaucracy, I would be on board.

The argument for the philosopher king is being made by ignorant philistines.

CR commenter Robert Wood commented on our recent post about James Hansen's understanding of «democracy» that Hansen «thinks he is one of Plato's philosopher kings».

A transparent political process and a robust legal system are both important parts of a democratic system of checks and balances that Popper believed were necessary to prevent the rise of the Philosopher King.