THE_SOPHROSYNE_PRINCIPLE_OF_SELF-GOVERNMENT
Don’t be fooled, don’t get upset, and don’t lose your temper. Just think positively, because the proof that the present British-American war policy will not work against Iran is that you are able to intervene and not lose your temper in order to solve the problem. That is what world leaders must also realize and calmly rediscover the Platonic principle of self-government: sophrosyne.
I am adding, again, two older reports I wrote six years ago (see below) because the present strategic situation requires an understanding of the principle that was lacking to prevent World War I and World War II; that is, the same principle that could have prevented the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which destroyed the Democratic Republic of Athens 2,457 years ago. The time for this change has now come to maturity.
In the present world situation, the most needed change is the establishment of four fundamental qualities of government leadership, which have been lacking in the Western World since the death of John F. Kennedy; they are: “Wisdom, Temperate Knowledge, Justice, and Courage.” (Plato, The Laws I, 631cd)
Plato identified those four leadership qualities within a process of creative change called sophrosyne (σωφροσύνη) or, “self-tempered mind” because those four qualities are not only absolutely necessary for every human individual to develop, but essential for any human government to function properly. The question is, therefore: how can those four human actions come together to form a New Just and Developing World Economic Order?
SOPHROSYNE, NOT SOPHISTRY, 8/28/20
SOPHROSYNE: PLATO’S KEY FOR SECURING CIVILIZATION. 8/11/20