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Totalitaristic way to rule nation is not actually wrong. We might say that every state what have governments and justice systems are someway totalitaristic. That means if law of state says something people must follow it in everyday life. When there is a text in lawbook that obliges every person who is in landscape or jurisdiction of that state. Law is always total, if anybody in that state will break it, that person should be punished. Laws are necessary things to protect citizens and other people from anarchy. They are upfront given orders how things should do in some area. Even dictatorship is not wrong itself. If dictator is good person he or she might rule with wisdom, but that kind of thing allows rise of despotic governments.
When dictators rule wisely we might forget that their sons might not be so wise than their parents were. Good example of situation where good willing dictatorship was followed by despotic government was Gustav vasa the king of Sweden. He was good ruler but his sons were something else. So when swedish law changed that the eldest son of the king will automatically become ruler of the nation they forgot that king Gustav the Vasa had three sons, and that almost destroyed Sweden. Those sons were not like him, and their crossfire made impossible to make anything in that state.
And laws are made to protect weak persons against strong. But as we know that Plato was somehow right when he wrote about laws. Honest people doesn't need laws, and criminals always knows how to go round those texts, but that was his opinion. When we are talking about Plato we always forget that he lived in time, where normal people didn't have any kind of way to get real justice. If Plato won't support leaders he would go to executioner was policy of those days.
That's why Plato writes so many text what support leaders and kings. Plato was philosopher who we know about his way to support inherited way to rule nations, and in his model power will transfer from father to son. If he had been written something else, would leaders of state cut of his head. Fear of revenge of those leaders like Solon forced Plato supports strong leadership and strong authority for government. And that makes this man one of the most liked writer of history.
But when we return to think philosophers we must realize that those men were all individualists. Their way to life was far away from normal people life. And people might think that they were weird. And those men were very good speakers and texts what are made by them are very rhetorical. If those men wrote something, they always must realize that those texts might be dangerous for them. So they indicated in their text to some else philosopher who died couple of years ago. That sometimes saved their life, when original writer of text was dying couple of years ago.
They could say that somebody said that first. But philosophers had other kind of cover roles, and one was of course playwrights role. They could say that they are making some theatrical dramas, and that sometimes made leaders to relax with them. Philosophy is strange and dangerous thing, because it teaches people to think themselves. And when they learn to think, they will find new ways to handle some other things like moralistic and ethical methodology.
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