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A Platonic ideal of a ruler who possesses both a love of wisdom and the political skill to govern a state according to justice. This concept was extensively revived and debated by Renaissance Neoplatonists like Marsilio Ficino in their political and ethical treatises.
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Other entities that appear in the same books as Philosopher-King.
Appears in 54 Books
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Plato; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Landino, Cristoforo
Plato | Taylor, Thomas (trans.)
Martianus Capella; Hugo Grotius (ed.)
Theophrastus
Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Cardinal Bessarion
Albumasar; Aristotle; Al-Farabi
Themistius (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Arrian (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Plutarch; trans. Bernadotte Perrin
Anonymous
Nicephorus Blemmydes
Demosthenes; Lysias; Synesius
Aldus Manutius (editor)
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Plato / Marsilio Ficino
Bessarion, Johannes|Aristotle|Theophrastus
Stobaeus, Johannes
Julianus Apostata|Libanius
Aldus Manutius (editor)
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Plato / Marsilio Ficino
Clement of Alexandria