“Our aim in founding the State was not disproportionate happiness.” - Plato’s Republic #shorts

Subscribe to @Chillbooks for the full audiobook: “And our answer will be that, even as they are, our guardians may very likely be the happiest of men; but that our aim in founding the State was not the disproportionate happiness of any one class, but the greatest happiness of the whole; we thought that in a State which is ordered with a view to the good of the whole we should be most likely to find justice, and in the ill-ordered State injustice: and, having found them, we might then decide which of the two is the happier. “ - Socrates from The Republic by Plato #philosophy