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philosopher king

noun

  1. the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.


philosopher-king

  1. In the Republicby Plato , the ideal ruler, who has the virtue and wisdom of a philosopher.
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Origin of philosopher king1

First recorded in 1920–25
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At nChain’s London offices, Dr. Wright, an Australian computer scientist, was treated as a sort of philosopher king.

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Later he emerged as a kind of philosopher king of the postwar nuclear era, publicly opposing the development of the hydrogen bomb and becoming a symbol both of America’s technological genius and of its conscience.

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And it only stands to reason that the poet laureate/philosopher king of the NFL, Marshawn Lynch, provided the best perspective.

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He’s not only, well, as of a week ago, a multibillionaire crypto entrepreneur; he’s also this philosopher king who signs on to these very crypto-friendly ideologies like effective altruism.

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Looking to his past and sketching his future, it is intended as the magnum opus of a figure the composer Michael Gordon has called “the philosopher king of percussion music.”

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