Why Philosophers Should Rule The City Of Kallipolis

Philosophers are more knowledgeable and are able to grasp concepts that others would find difficult to understand. Plato uses this fact to support his notion that they are the only ones supposed to rule Kallipolis because within the years they have spent therein, they have grasped a lot more information than any other citizen. According to Plato, philosophers should rule the city of Kallipolis because they know the city well, they are more likely to lead for the better of the city, they believe in the most reasonable things, they make their dreams a reality, they have the source of all goodness, and they avoid boasting and bragging over their endless knowledge. Philosophers will be the best to rule the city because they have enough knowledge
Socrates argues that when an individual has already seen it, he must make a conclusion that it causes everything that is beautiful and correct, producing the light with the source being in the realm, where in that intelligible realm, it acts as the controller and the provider of both understanding and the truth, in a way that everyone who acts sensibly publicly or privately must see it (Plato 532a). In the book, Plato describes the form of being good as the ultimate entity of knowledge. He means that when one is good then he is everything else. He compares the source in the realm with ultimate goodness. This is the source to all the intelligible realm, of the cognitive capacity to knowledge and of our intelligibility itself. While describing the form of good, Socrates is not able to entirely convince the reader what he speaks of and that is when he decides to compare this form to the source which to him is the sun. According to his argument, it is only after a man gets hold of the form of goodness that he finally achieves the highest understanding and cognitive level. To him, all philosophers have attained that level and they are highly cognitive and