Anonymous
7/17/2025, 2:25:36 AM No.40739572
The World will only be right when the Daimons rule again.
>Cronus recognised, of course, that as we have explained, human nature is not up to the task of independently managing all human affairs without becoming full of arrogance and injustice. So with this in mind, he then installed kings for our cities, and rulers who were not human but belonged rather to a more divine and exalted race, the race of daimons. This is just what we ourselves do nowadays with our sheep and herds of domestic animals. We do not make oxen rule over oxen or goats over goats, but we ourselves, a kind superior to them, act as their masters. In like manner, the god, out of love for humanity, appointed a kind superior to us, the daimons, to take care of us. This was a very easy task for them and a great kindness to us, providing us with peace and respect, lawfulness and unrestricted justice, and ensuring that the various groups that comprise humanity were free from faction and happy.
-Plato Laws IV 713c-713e
>Cronus recognised, of course, that as we have explained, human nature is not up to the task of independently managing all human affairs without becoming full of arrogance and injustice. So with this in mind, he then installed kings for our cities, and rulers who were not human but belonged rather to a more divine and exalted race, the race of daimons. This is just what we ourselves do nowadays with our sheep and herds of domestic animals. We do not make oxen rule over oxen or goats over goats, but we ourselves, a kind superior to them, act as their masters. In like manner, the god, out of love for humanity, appointed a kind superior to us, the daimons, to take care of us. This was a very easy task for them and a great kindness to us, providing us with peace and respect, lawfulness and unrestricted justice, and ensuring that the various groups that comprise humanity were free from faction and happy.
-Plato Laws IV 713c-713e
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