>the west is in a state of moral decline because of philosophical nihilism caused by liberalism, rationalism, science, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism >man has been turned from faith to reason, from community to the individual, from duty to rights, from inequality to equality, from order to freedom, from self-sacrifice to self-interest >man has become unhinged from the natural moral order and religious faith >platonic philosophy = good; modernism = bad >some men are more fit to rule than others >philosophic statesmen should never be hampered by conventional morality or the rule of law >virtue is the purpose of the city, wise statesmen must use benevolent coercion to make their subjects virtuous >regime should be grounded on piety, political myth, and self-sacrifice Find a flaw.

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