Ben Franklin - Founding Father and Enlightener
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The author suggests Franklin - a thinker, writer, and printer, inventor, statesman, and diplomat - to be a prototype of philosopher-kings first mandated by plato in 'The Republic'.... These were the philosopher-kings first mandated by plato in The Republic: [when] philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one…” (2004, p.... The Enlightenment strove to realize plato's vision with “the faith that man can be remade by a scientific sociology-politics; the belief that man is good” (Crocker 1962, p....