I was googling for provenance of ‘strong should rule the weak’ argument. Wikipedia had a bad summary of a lousy version of the argument from The Republic. TV tropes had a vastly more useful and entertaining listicle of social Darwinist cartoon villainshttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSocialDarwinist …
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Nice. Between “oligarchic amoralism” and “kakistocracy”, it’s clear the ancient Greeks wouldn’t give us any points for originality.
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On the contrary I find the Greek arguments pretty shallow and obvious. Post Darwinian ones are far richer.
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