/lit/ - Literature

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>What if the spirited part of your soul is dominating the rational part of your soul and preventing it to know what is truly good for you?
I'd love to hear how your philosopher king could determine this without a shadow of a doubt.

>Are you truly doing what you want, then, when you do what you desire but you don't know that it is harmful to you?
Experience is a perfectly valid means of acquiring knowledge. You can pass all the nanny-state laws you want; it is only when one is harmed that he can truly understand that something is bad for him.

>Wouldn't the fact that, by knowing better, you would change your course of action, justify that someone who knows better for you can force you to act according to this knowledge because he would be doing what you truly want i.e. your own good?
Your line of reasoning is outlandish. If I truly want to be nourished, does this justify your philosopher king force-feeding me?