MilchMensch t1_ixuf0gi wrote
Reply to comment by Current-Direction-97 in TIL Singapore’s constitution requires the President to have experience as a minister - or as CEO of a large, profitable company. by ltdanhasnolegs
Philosophy is a spectrum, you cant measure or screen people using it.
but yeah some academic sociology experience should be 100% required for any position of power
useablelobster2 t1_ixw0afo wrote
> but yeah some academic sociology experience should be 100% required for any position of power
Way to gatekeep with a soft-science subject, one all but completely captured by social engineers.
Let's not have people who think societies are giant experiments in charge shall we? That's how you get shit like collectivisation.
Current-Direction-97 t1_ixuh9up wrote
Philosophy worked for thousand of years before “democracy” to train good leaders. I think it can also work just fine now as well.
Reference Plato’s Republic.
It is orders of magnitude better than capitalism, or evangelical brainwashing that we mostly have now!
zachzsg t1_ixv7rwm wrote
How many leaders from the past were actually “philosophers” lol. Leaders in the past got power by using vast amounts of violence not by using words
Current-Direction-97 t1_ixv7zee wrote
All of the good ones were.
zachzsg t1_ixv8vjs wrote
Fair
MilchMensch t1_ixv63zo wrote
The problem is that philosophy cannot run a world of 8 billion people.
How many humans were alive during platos time? A billion maybe? I can see philosophy working then, but as soon as theres billions of people involved you need something like organized religion, authoritarianism or capitalism.
Current-Direction-97 t1_ixv6n60 wrote
No single system of governance runs an empire of 8 billion even now.
MilchMensch t1_ixvc5c0 wrote
Yes it does. But its solely based on the accumulation of wealth, not religion or any idea.
We are all governed by capitalist ideologies.
zachzsg t1_ixv7wiz wrote
Also…. How many of these ancient civilizations were actually run by “philosophers” lol. From my studying, violence and brutality is what ran the show not “philosophy”
Pay08 t1_ixxjb5z wrote
You have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
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