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Meeting Plato’s challenge?

Author: Michael Baurmann

Published in: Public Choice | Issue 3-4/2012

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We can regard the history of Political Philosophy as a sequence of responses to a challenge that Plato left behind as a—somewhat poisoned—legacy of his political thoughts. In a nutshell this challenge consists of two assumptions: 1. People have to confer political power on political rulers who are authorized to make collective decisions about the public welfare according to their personal convictions and insights. 2. People have to trust their political rulers, and society has to ensure that trustworthy persons are enthroned as such. …

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Title: Meeting Plato’s challenge?
Author: Michael Baurmann
Publication date: 01-09-2012
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Public Choice / Issue 3-4/2012
Print ISSN: 0048-5829
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-012-9995-z

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