![]() ![]() ![]() Socrates then explores the nature of the guardians further, discriminating for his auditors the different types of corruption to which the philosophic nature is susceptible. His conclusion is that, if philosophers are rogues, it is the fault of those who do not put them to their proper use: ruling. Socrates is too happy to respond he relates the parable of the true pilot and the mutineers. He accuses Socrates' philosophers (guardians) of being monsters and rogues. Just when the auditors seem to have vanished from the dialogue, only participating to offer their assent, Adeimantus interjects. Truthfulness, valor, temperance, gentility, keenness of memory are some of the essential qualities of the good and just rulereach one an offspring of the four cardinal Socrates elucidated in Books III and IV. ![]() The dialogue in Book VI has the nature of the State's rulers, the guardians, as its primary subject. ![]()
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