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4 results for "plutarch"

1. Plutarch, To An Uneducated Ruler, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •plutarch, on kingship and living law ideal Found in books: Martens (2003) 59

2. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.122 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •plutarch, on kingship and living law ideal Found in books: Martens (2003) 122

7.122. though indeed there is also a second form of slavery consisting in subordination, and a third which implies possession of the slave as well as his subordination; the correlative of such servitude being lordship; and this too is evil. Moreover, according to them not only are the wise free, they are also kings; kingship being irresponsible rule, which none but the wise can maintain: so Chrysippus in his treatise vindicating Zeno's use of terminology. For he holds that knowledge of good and evil is a necessary attribute of the ruler, and that no bad man is acquainted with this science. Similarly the wise and good alone are fit to be magistrates, judges, or orators, whereas among the bad there is not one so qualified.

3. Archytas of Tarentum, Peri Nomou Kai Dikaiosynes Ap. Stobaeus, 4.1.135-4.1.136 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Martens (2003) 59

4. Diotogenes Philosophus, Fragments, 4.7.64-4.7.65 Tagged with subjects: •plutarch, on kingship and living law ideal Found in books: Martens (2003) 59

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