v7 Chapter 68： Meet Plato

Plato stunned and smiled: "Lucias, I am very happy to see you again! You are getting fat, I almost didn't recognize it."

Indeed, at this time, Lucias had a good life and a successful career. It was no longer the case in Athens where he wrote a defense word and earned money to live. He patted the belly that was prominently covered by the gorgeous Bolton. It seemed to be helpless, but he sighed with a dark impression: "The older the meat, the longer the meat, the more it can be reduced. There is really no way."

Plato smiled and replied: "Because your age is your experience and insight!"

By Plato, Lucias laughed and pointed at the person next to him and said with enthusiasm: "I will introduce you to this. This is the main organizer of the Dionysian elders, this "Greek Congress of All Greece". - Anchitalos."

"Is it Ansantas to write "The History of the Great Greece"?!" Plato asked with a look of surprise.

"The History of Great Greece is what I wrote, but I can barely read it." Ansitanos said modestly: "Unlike Plato, the "Imperial State" you wrote shocked all Greek scholars, even ours. King Davers also praised your book, saying that it is a political book and praises you as a great Plato!"

The praise of Ansitanos made Plato a little embarrassed. He said frankly: "This book was written in the Mediterranean for 12 years, using the knowledge gained from observation and thinking. There are still many defects and ills. Is constantly improving..."

In fact, this writing has caused a lot of controversy and criticism in Athens, because Plato has criticized the ills of democracy in the book.

Plato turned and praised: "It is the history of the Great Greece written by Ansantas, the words are plain, the texts are rigorous, and the time is the vertical line. The events happening in the major Greek city-states are horizontal. Depicting the history of the great Greek centuries clearly, I feel no less than Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, and let the Greek natives have a good understanding of the Greek colonies. In the hard history of centuries in southern Italy, I have properly collected three books in the bookstore of my school..."

"You two don't want to praise each other first, let's get out of here. Ansantas, don't forget, King Duffus is waiting to meet Plato!" Lucias urged.

"Your king wants to see me?" Plato was surprised.

"I didn't say it right now. King Davers is very esteemed to you. The reason why I want to see you now is because the conference has not yet begun, and it will not be too eye-catching," Ancitanus explained.

Plato thought, then he understood, and then smiled: "Great, I am about to see the magical king who created the Dionysian miracle!"

Compared with the two scholars who came before, Plato’s onlookers are more, not because he is more famous at this time, but because he has not traveled to major Mediterranean countries and city-states for a few years. Hippocrates and Democritus have entered their old age and rarely travel far.

For example, Agrigento businessman Lopez once saw him in the business of Syracuse and Leotini when he traveled to Sicily in Plato. At this moment, he looked at the back of Plato's dreams: the famous Greek doctor - Hippocrates, the omniscient scholar - the student of Democritus, the famous scholar of Athens - Plato. In just half a day, Dionynia invited three famous universities in the Greek world. The All-Greek scholars conference held by Dionia must be a gathering of scholars. I am afraid it will be quite attractive. Is Turri an academic center that wants to replace Athens and become the Greek world? !

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For the great philosopher and thinker who was called "the father of philosophy" by the Westerners in the past, when Westerners talked about political and philosophical research, they even had the consensus that "Plato is philosophy, philosophy is Plato". Foss had longed to see it.

Plato also hopes to see this young king who can make a small city-state rise to the most powerful Greek power in the Western Mediterranean. He can face the political mystery of "making the country fast and powerful" and believe in perfecting his politics. Philosophical theory is very beneficial.

Both of them held an urgent desire, and they met at the King’s Office in the Royal Palace of Deon.

Plato is not tall and strong, and is very different from the traditional Chinese, high-caliber literati, and the young Wang, who is a powerful young king of the Kingdom of Dion, is also known as the "handsome god". Can't touch too much side.

But the two are not ordinary people. They will not look at each other with the usual attitude of "taking people by appearance". After looking at each other, Plato first said: "The dear Daves, I came here from the port. On the way, I found that there was a big difference between the citizens of Dionynia and the citizens of other Greek city-states." He paused and saw Davis's curious look. Then he said, "You don't have a beard, are you deliberate?" ”

Davers did not expect Plato to ask such a question. He subconsciously touched his chin and said with a smile: "This is because the people of Dionia have realized the long beard in these years of life. It’s not a good thing. Our civic soldiers in the battle against the enemy found that the beard was too long to be caught by the other side, causing injury or even loss of life; doctors at the University of Dionia Medical School found that there were too many beards. Too long, if not cleaned frequently, it will breed some small things that we can't see, which will cause us to suffer from diseases, but frequent cleaning will cost us a lot of energy and time, but it is better to scrape it completely."

Listening to Daves, Plato also subconsciously stroked his thick jaws and said: "So, the Dionians advocate practicality? Is it even unwilling to follow the ancient Greek tradition?"

Davers smiled and said earnestly: "Our Greeks' understanding of the environment and nature is gradually clear and rich with the passage of time. Scholars of ancient times are certainly not comparable to us now, so they are many The views and understandings are simple, even wrong...so the good Greek tradition, of course we have to inherit; but the bad tradition, why should we keep it! Just like other city-states lock women at home, and We, Dionia, give the kingdom women more freedom and equal education. Do you also call for the city-state to achieve equality between men and women in the "Utopia"?!..."

Davers’s words made Plato listen and think, but he did not respond directly. Instead, he asked: “Since you have said that you want to inherit the good Greek tradition and abandon the bad, then you become the king, will Diony Has the Asian League become a kingdom, is it that the Wang Zheng system is superior to other regimes?"

Daves did not directly answer his questions, but looked at him and said seriously: "I have seen your "Ideology", for you to think that 'only philosophers are the best city-state rulers' view I don't agree. Even letting the philosophers be in power will only make the city-state worse!"

Plato listened to this and looked at it with a glance. He quickly recovered his calmness and asked with aggravated tone: "Why does King’s Majesty think so?"

Daves said without hesitation: "We Greeks call philosophy "the study of wisdom", which is a profound study of the evolution of the world, the society, the world... everything, can be called a philosopher The person must inevitably put all his efforts into it to gain his insightful insight into the world. This is not an easy task. So where does he have the extra time to govern the country?! Look at me here- —"

Davers pointed at the piles of letters, proposals, and materials on his desk. He sighed and said: "This is the kingdom affairs I have to deal with in one day. In addition, I have to recruit officials to discuss and participate. Discussion of the proposals of the Senate... On this day, I have almost no spare time. Even I will meet you I have to plan in advance before I take out half an hour of free time. And this will lead me to go home later tonight, otherwise some resolutions can't be approved in time, it can only be pushed to tomorrow, which means not only the reduction of administrative efficiency, but also the people of a city or a region in the kingdom. Life is greatly affected...

You see, if you want to be a good king, he will not have time to study philosophy. He can only devote most of his energy to the complicated city-state affairs. The same is true of the chief executives of the cities in my kingdom. Their power is equivalent to the rulers of other city-states. They must work diligently and down-to-earth to solve the practical problems of their cities. If anyone spends their energy on studying, not doing it. If you don’t need me to replace him, local councillors and security officials will protest to him...”

"Your Majesty, your diligence makes me marvel!" Plato made a compliment first, then calmly said: "Since you all said that philosophy is the study of wisdom, then wisdom is not by sitting there." If you come, he must rely on practice to refine. When you encounter problems in dealing with government affairs, seriously think about them, discover the rules, and finally find a solution, you can even refine this method into a system. By extension, isn't this the result of applying philosophy!..."

"It seems that I and the various chief executives in the kingdom are philosophers, and this philosopher is too easy to be awkward." Daves gently retorted one sentence.