# Philosopher ruler

- Id: `philosopher_ruler`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/philosopher-ruler/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `84b82e25cc5bc020537880905249d69bb15db509ad3c9d1adf9e2a1c8518d1b2`

## Summary

The philosopher ruler joins political power to knowledge of the good so the city is not governed by ambition alone.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 278 passages across 1 works, including Republic. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:plato.republic:621",
    "passage:plato.republic:620",
    "passage:plato.republic:619"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "philosophe roi",
    "philosopher king",
    "philosopher ruler",
    "philosophers rule"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 278,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
    }
]
```