I wonder if Plato wanted every person to be a philosopher in his republic? Could he imagine that every living being could be a philosopher? Jesus’s sophia perennis, for the transformation of every being through wisdom may be closer to it, and perhaps closer to us achieving this republic that we dream of. Christ? Sadly More

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