Q.16. Explain why Plato suggested aristocracy of intelligence in the statecraft.
Ans. Plato suggested aristocracy of intelligence in the statecraft. He says that wisdom is never the monopoly of a few individuals, however will they are trained. To say that philosophers alone possess the great knowledge is to censor all new ideas and thereby live in stagnation. Plato was so much impressed with the idea of philosopher king or lover of philosophy that he totally neglected the idea of law or the influence of public opinion. There is a whole world of difference between knowledge and experience. Plato ignored the Greek conception of the state as being an association of equals, owing only the sovereignty of law. He reduced he majority to the states of automatic. His system rruled out not ony direct but also representative democracy.
