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a)In addition to being lovers of wisdom with the ability to grasp eternal and immutable truths, Plato attributes philosophers with many further qualities. ... Plato uses the simile of the ship to express the skills needed to steer the state and it’s people towards the ideal are only possessed by philosophers – in the same way that the expertise to navigate the ship are only possessed by the true navigators. ... Philosophers alone can discriminate between justice itself and particular just things. ... Plato is claiming that philosophers are capable. However, philosophers must remain modest and guide the common people with maturity, with aid of their sense of taste and proportion.
In all acknowledgement of their gifts from the gods, philosophers should remain unpretentious. ...
Finally, since it is futile to obtain the truth only to forget it soon after, philosophers need also to have a good memory and swift in learning. ...
b) Plato’s definition of philosophers sounds too good to be true; this is the exactly reason for having been readily criticized. ... Either way, wisdom is the route to knowledge, and is evidently an aptitude gained with age and experience, not an innate characteristics which only those with “gold running in their veins” are born with.
Although the natural inbred desire to contemplate the forms is credible, after all what might appeal to one person right from the first moments of life might not appeal to another, however, surely if philosophers only took pleasure in things of the mind then they cannot relate to the common people and their experiences. Will it not be impossible for philosophers, who are totally self controlled and self-disciplined, to guide society in matters concerning physical pleasures if they have no personal experience of them? ...
One of the enormously established characters of philosophers is truthfulness and their intolerance of falsehood.
Approximate Word count = 1490
Approximate Pages = 6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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