Trustworthy or Useless

Socrates has now moved onto see whether philosophers or non-philosophers should rule the city in book VI. He first states, as a result of his previous argument, that "philosophers are the ones who can reach what always stays the same in every respect, and non-philosophers the ones who cannot, who wonder among the many things that go in every direction." Those who rule the city must be capable of guarding the laws and pursuits of the city. Socrates then states that all philosophers must have truthfulness in their nature and must hate lies and never accept any willingly. This is because someone who is passionately in love will love everything to do with what he is in love with. Since philosophers are in love with wisdom, and wisdom is very closely related to truth, they must also love truth. A person with such characteristics as these should naturally rule the city. The reason no philosophers are rulers is because nobody worth anything asks his subjects to let him rule them, and yet the people cannot tell the difference between the true philosophers and the politicians.

P.S. I commented on Kayla and Katie's post