Both Plato and Rousseau present a tyrant as something like a spoiled child, an adult who operates on their base desires, their Id (“it” from Freud), and projects those out into and onto the world.  Plato’s wise man, in contrast, is wise, in balance with the parts of the self sort of properly fed, and so is not controlled but in control.  Noteworthy also is the large scale of the tyrant and the individual scale of the wise man.  A question is how can the wise man gain power without becoming corrupt?

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