"If only the rulers of the city-states were able to learn through practice, rather than indulging in carnal pleasures. They are all able to treat the people of the city-state with good intentions, and they are able to discover the essence through things with a keen eye, and formulate laws about beauty, justice, and goodness that are beneficial to the citizens of the city-state, and guide the people to obey it and guard it...... Then of course they are philosophers, there is no doubt about it! Plato said firmly.

Davers knew that Plato had expanded the concept of the philosopher, but he did not feel the need to refute it directly, but turned to other questions: "In the book 'The Ideal Republic', you think that a true philosopher should have the love of truth and not falsehood, temperance and not pleasure-coveting, open-mindedness, open-mindedness, courage and not fear death, justice and virtuousness, intelligence and studiousness, natural harmony, and moderate advance and retreat...... In other words, he should be a perfect good man, and such a philosopher can become a true ruler, right? ”

"That's right, basically." Plato said calmly, and then added, "But it is difficult to achieve it now." ”

"Why is it so hard to get there now?" Davers asked.

"Because there is no stage for philosophers to display their statecraft in the city-state!" Plato replied with a little excitement: "Some so-called 'wise men' only know how to curry favor and cater to the people in the citizens' assembly of the city-state, and attack the philosophers who really seek the truth of things, because the truth is always more difficult for the people to accept than the false, so the philosophers are not popular with the people of the city-state." The harsh environment of the city-state lured talented young men into ambition, preferring to learn rhetoric to cater to the people and gain power and wealth rather than to gain reason through the hard training of slaves.

In this way, there are fewer and fewer true philosophers, like falling into a herd of beasts, who do not want to take part in the evil, and who cannot fight all the beasts independently, so they have to remain silent and focus only on their own affairs......"

"So you wrote 'Imaginary', but in fact it doesn't exist in reality." Davers was insightful.

"No, it will exist someday!" Plato said with a resolute gaze: "For this reason, I established the Akademi Academy!" ……”

Shaken by Plato's words, Davers looked at this philosopher who was called "great" in his previous life, and Davers deeply felt his determination to fight for his ideas all his life, which reminded him of another philosopher in his previous life, who was almost the same era as Plato and influenced China for more than 2,000 years.

Thinking of this, Davers no longer made trouble about what he thought was deficient in the book "The Ideal State", but asked for advice in a calm voice: "In the book "The Ideal State", you mentioned that 'a strict social division of labor is the first principle of the establishment of the ideal city-state, and the rulers, guardians, peasants, and craftsmen can only ensure that the country is in order and everyone is happy and happy...... but you do not seem to take into account the slaves and gentiles who make up the majority of the population in the city-state, which may be a great hidden danger.

Because slaves and Gentiles also had their own political demands, if the city-state could not give them them, then they would inevitably bring great damage to the order of the city-state. In the Peloponnesian War, Athens, which was supposed to be united against foreign enemies, was dealt a major blow to its people by the defection of more than 20,000 miners and slaves; When Syracuse under Dionysius fought against our Ionias, the freedmen of the port of Syracuse, who had been discriminated against, became the main force in the rebellion and overthrow Dionysius' rule......

In addition, if you divide the populace of the city-state into classes, the peasants will only be engaged in agriculture, the artisans will only be engaged in crafts, and the guardians will only be engaged in warfare...... Such a division is not too idealistic, but too rigid. Because most of the people have a desire to get a better status of the city-state, farmers and craftsmen may also want to be guardians, and guardians also want to be rulers, whether they can do it or not, you should give them this possible way to pre-wish them, so that the different classes of the whole city-state can maintain a kind of mobility, and the people of the city-state will have vitality. Don't you want to know the reason why Dionia is so quickly powerful, and that's one of the reasons! ”

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Davers and Plato exchanged their views and opinions on the system of the polis, sometimes fiercely arguing, sometimes calmly discussing, and both were very engaged.

Before he knew it, half an hour passed in a flash, and it was not until the clerk Henipolis reminded him that Davers had to stop the exchange and apologize to Plato that he had something to do next, and that the conversation could only end there.

Plato had a look of regret on his face, and from the carelessness of his initial reception, to the total devotion he now had, he had indeed benefited a lot from this conversation.

At this moment, he sincerely requested: "Your Majesty Davers, can you grant me a request?" ”

"Tell me."

"Will you allow me to see the actual functioning of the various institutions under the Kingdom of Dionia, such as the schools, the inspection department, the building department, and the official management committee for the examination and recruitment of public officials, as you just mentioned......

"Of course, there is no problem." Davers readily agreed, and said, "This is my clerk, Henipolis, the Senate of Ionia. When Plato finishes your lecture at the Academy, he will take you on a tour of the various places in Turi. ”

Plato immediately thanked him.

After he left, Hennepolis asked suspiciously, "Your Majesty, do you really want Plato to take a closer look at our administration?" ”

"Of course. Plato was a well-known scholar in all Greece, and he also had his own academy, and I wanted him to proclaim the superiority of my Dioonia kingdom in Greece itself, and to make a name for Dionia. Davers said without thinking.

"But it might allow other city-states to steal our system." Henipolis said with a little concern.

Davos laughed: "Heni, the production of a weapon and equipment can be stolen, the production of a handicraft can be stolen, but the political system is difficult to learn, especially for those city-states that have been established for a long time, there are many traditional and conservative forces and they are strong, if you want to change the political system, it will inevitably damage their interests, and when the time comes, you can't avoid a bloody riot, and Herois of Syracuse is an example!" So, what kind of people wear what kind of shoes, it's not okay to mess around......"

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There was no official opening ceremony for the All-Greek Congress, given that scholars were free and did not like to waste time sitting around listening to people's speeches, but how to coordinate the time for lectures and discussions among invited scholars was a troublesome problem.

This time, the meeting was held mainly in four places in the Dionian Academy, namely the Faculty of Mathematics, the Faculty of Letters, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Faculty of Philosophy. Many of the invited scholars have made achievements in many fields, such as Democritus's disciple Sainstrion, who studied philosophy, mathematics, and medicine; As an important figure of the Pythagorean school, Lucis not only studied mathematics and physics, but also had his own unique philosophical concepts...... These faculties all wanted scholars to come to their side first, so there was a lot of debate.

Fortunately, Davers also served as the chairman of the conference, and he brought together the deans of the four colleges, and after much deliberation, the schedule was quickly formulated.

Plato's students came to the Dioonian Academy, and found that, as Fortecada said, the size of the school, the number of buildings, and the beauty of the environment were indeed far greater than that of the Akademi Academy, which made them feel a little lost, but soon they were addicted to all kinds of profound knowledge.

They frequently shuttle from one faculty to another, listening to the lectures of scholars.

At the Faculty of Letters, they listened to Lycias's "The Application of Logic to Courtroom Debate", Isocrates' "How to Sculpt Your Speech";

At the School of Mathematics, they pondered Mattichris's "Discussion of the Regularity of the Vibration Curve of Matter" and Mentotik Els's "Preliminary Theory of Probability" (this is a piece of knowledge that Davers commissioned the School of Mathematics to calculate the odds for ball games for the past six or seven years, and the School of Mathematics discovered and summarized from it. ）；

In the Faculty of Philosophy, they had to discern the similarities and differences between Lyce's philosophy of "all things are numbered" and Androsthenes's On the Being of Things (a pupil of the Parmenides of Elijah and also the vice-president of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Dionian Academy) and the philosophy taught by Plato;

In medical school, they watched as Phelps narrated and demonstrated the functioning of the heart, Stacecodas's "A Preliminary Study of the Pathogenesis of the Common Human Disease: A Preliminary Study of the Pathogenesis of the Cold", and Hippocrates' medical view of "obeying nature" (that is, the human body itself is the best medicine against disease, and the doctor's primary responsibility is to stand on the side of nature and promote the physical and mental recovery of the patient......

Spitipus learned and absorbed knowledge at the same time, but also met a lot of young masters, most of them were students of the Dionian Academy, all of them were confident and generous, diligent and studious, and when listening to the scholars' speeches, they not only recorded the main points with papyrus at any time, but also actively asked questions, and even stumped the speakers many times because of the profundity of the questions.

After coming down, the students of the Dionian Academy had a heated discussion, and Spithopus joined them, but they often couldn't keep up with their quick thinking, because they lacked more knowledge. In fact, this is understandable, there is only one teacher in the Akademi Academy, although Plato is very knowledgeable, he cannot have in-depth research in various fields, and the Dionian Academy has many teachers, most of whom are well-known scholars, and students of various majors are allowed to observe and exchange learning. (https:)

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