Name a historical figure that came closer to being a true philosopher king

Why am I seeing Sargon all over the board now?

Teddy Roosevelt was probably the closest to a well read, philosopher king considering how much he read.

Autism tends to be the answer to most meta-questions on this board.

His brother Joseph recounted:

>[Napoleon] was then a passionate admirer of Jean-Jacques [Rousseau]; … a fan of the masterpieces of Corneille, Racine and Voltaire. He brought the works of Plutarch, Plato, Cicero, Cornelius Nepos, Livy and Tacitus, translated into French; and those of Montaigne, Montesquieu and Raynal. All of these works filled a trunk larger than the one that contained his toiletries. I don’t deny that he also had the poems of Ossian, but I do deny that he preferred them to Homer.

>Believing his brother, who would profit from his brother securing total power, isn't full of shit when he said Napoleon actually read his books.

>By 1821, when Napoleon died, his library consisted of 1,814 volumes, 1,226 of which had been shipped from England.

seething Anglo detected

He's got the eyes of a killer. Seriously, this man unnerves me.

Every time I see this guy he looks like a very stupid man pretending to be very smart.

user, yew cewoodn't be mwore wong huhuh

Napoleon was a fucking genius. Vive l'empereur

Winston Churchill

Dionysius II, but he couldn't learn geometry so Plato abandoned him lololol

Dom Pedro II

>Macron studied Philosophy at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, obtaining a DEA degree (a master level degree, with a thesis on Machiavelli and Hegel). Around 1999 Macron worked as an editorial assistant to Paul Ricoeur, the French Protestant philosopher who was then writing his last major work, La Mémoire, l'Histoire, l'Oubli.

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Mohammed.

this faggot is running for MEP now

Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

How would saying Napoleon read books help him secure total power?

Sometimes I wonder if it makes sense to read that much.

>2 books a day

Why not dwell more on each book instead ?

As a Chinese person, nothing makes me feel better than watching the West destroy itself

>Americans so addicted to war that they fail to provide even basic healthcare, $800 B I L L I O N war industry that goes unaudited
>EU crumbling
>Britain so bad they’ve been trying to elect a “””classical liberal””” YouTube nonsense maker

Feels good that the vile and uncivilized Wh*teoid is dying off, once again China will be the center of the world, the crown jewel of earth

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arent you worried your social credit is going to get fucked from posting on Yea Forums

Oooooh me no rike your repry! Me report you to Chairman Ching Chong! You not say bad thing about China!

Sargon uwu, notice me senpai!!

It’s chairman Xi you fucking ape

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Shut up and make my sesame chicken you bug eyed subhuman!

>China
China is not more than some islands in the Western Pacific these days (Taiwan).
The PRC and that fake communism fucked up with almost all Chinese culture.

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China is part of Western Capitalism and is going through the same problems

This isn't Instagram; post your lunch somewhere else.

JE
SUIS
JUPITER

This but unironically and actually and genuinely

mohammed is the obvious Yea Forums choice

>creates holy book that is literally just him shitposting his thoughts
>memes his ideas into a mass movement that causes havoc in multiple regions
>marries 9 year olds and generally shits all over women
>hypocrite of cosmic proportions, preaches love and peace and adherence to God while being a violent intolerant degenerate

>translated into French
>not reading the original
what a pleb

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Admiration of the common man

He’s a cutie

Taiw*n is not real China, Taiw*n is rightful CHINESE soil

ayatollah khomeini

Lmao you fucking loathsome gweilos, why do you always get so mad that the Chinese do Capitalism so much better you? Foolish gweilos think that they can just let it roam free, but they’re wrong. Our glorious party controls capitalism, and that’s why it shifts to us

Once we embodying it, we will kill it and become supreme master of world through socialism, with Chinese characteristics

BUT, unlike you gweilos we will be benevolent masters. We believe in raisin others so that they may rise with us, unlike you demonic westerners who think that only you may rule, and punish the global south.

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No one said "Adolf Hitler"? You disappoint me, Yea Forums.

>tfw Muhammad was the archetypal Yea Forums edgelord

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Don't forget
>not even white

prove you are Chinese

The most based post on Yea Forums right now

>BUT, unlike you gweilos we will be benevolent masters. We believe in raisin others
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True. Khomeini was a Plato expert. He didn't get the idea for a Guardian Council out of nowhere.

Your post reminds me of Yohan Sfar's End of the Parenthesis comic. Apparently the title is taken from some Chinese official who was predicting the 'end of the European parenthesis', pretty much what you are taking about now.

>all those electricity trigger conditions
>that item 20
>that ite 36

So basically "other" means they can monitor whoever they feel like ?

he was more of a poet king but yeah he's close

Of course they can fucking monitor who they like. Who do you think this is, the Little Sisters of the Poor Badminton and Refreshments Committee? No, it's the Chinese Communist Party. If they want to put a trail of some Uighnigger, they do so.

>ctrl+f Alfred the Great
>nothing
He did much to improve education in his kingdom and even translated books of philosophy, theology, and parts of the Bible into Old-English so that more of his subjects could profit from access to great books.

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this

Sure but why bother with all those requirements ? Why not just say "we're watching you, kiddo".

They have to pretend to at least have some "justifiable" cause for their tyranny, and laying out a set of official-looking "rules" to be followed can help create an air of pretence.

I'm disappointed by the replies in this thread.

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The Gautama