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Thich Nhat Hanh (L) and Dalai Lama (R)-
Buddhist monks/teachers.
Lee Kuan Yew-
Singapore's founding father and Plato's closest match to the latter's model of a philosopher-king; philosopher-kings are the hypothetical rulers of Plato's utopia Kallipolis. If his ideal city-state is to ever come into being, "philosophers [must] become kings…or those now called kings [must]…genuinely and adequately philosophize" (The Republic, 473c).
Hypatia-
Prominent philosopher, teacher, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria and in Hellenistic Egypt.
Buddhist monks/teachers.
Lee Kuan Yew-
Singapore's founding father and Plato's closest match to the latter's model of a philosopher-king; philosopher-kings are the hypothetical rulers of Plato's utopia Kallipolis. If his ideal city-state is to ever come into being, "philosophers [must] become kings…or those now called kings [must]…genuinely and adequately philosophize" (The Republic, 473c).
Hypatia-
Prominent philosopher, teacher, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria and in Hellenistic Egypt.