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History, 18.03.2021 21:10 gtsaeg260

Read the passage from Plato’s Republic. Who are to be our rulers? First, the elder must rule the younger; and the best of the elders will be the best guardians. Now they will be the best who love their subjects most, and think that they have a common interest with them in the welfare of the state. These we must select; but they must be watched . . . to see whether they have retained the same opinions and held out against force and enchantment. For time and persuasion and the love of pleasure may enchant a man into a change of purpose, and the force of grief and pain may compel him. And therefore our guardians must be men who have been tried by many tests . . . and have been passed first through danger, then through pleasure, and at every age have come out of such trials victorious . . . in full command of themselves and their principles; having all their faculties in harmonious exercise for their country's good.

–The Republic, Plato

According to this passage, why does Plato say that older people make better leaders than younger people?

Younger people tend to take too many risks.
Older people have more time on their hands to rule.
Older people are wise from all of their experiences.
Younger people are too distracted to rule.

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