Reply #4: Did so

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and partly in Greek. One of my professors was a specialist in Plato.

And with Plato, you can never be sure if it's self irony or totally serious. And in my aesthetics superposition of self irony and total seriousness in a mark of High Poetry, to be measured only very carefully without collapsing it. So, do you have some prima facie reason to oppose rule by academic hierarchy of philosopher kings? Shouldn't it be at least tested empirically before it can be falsified?