They are temperate and have no desire for power, a characteristic which Plato believes makes them a good ruler, as he says: "A city ​​in which those who are the ones who are going to govern are the least willing to govern are necessarily the best and the freest of any faction. » The philosopher, unwilling to govern, is least likely to be partial and tyrannical. In Plato's Noble Lie: From Kallipolis to Magnesia, David Lay Williams excellently explains why Plato considered the philosopher the perfect ruler: "In the Republic, Plato had assumed that whatever the endemic defects of the vast majority of citizens, true philosophers were immune. . They stood above human nature, as it were, in the realm of Being – more oracular than human. » As such, as a true philosophical soul, the Philosopher-King is able to glimpse the Forms, or Plato's definition of true knowledge. They stood beyond the limits of a typical political being - ordinary citizens were trapped inside a dark cave, observing false truths interpreted by shadows produced by an artificial flame on the cave wall, so that they could come out of the cave and look at the Sun, which was an analogy to the ultimate truth or the Forms. This ability gave them the burden of governing Plato's kingdom, as well as the responsibility of providing an imprint for other souls to emulate. In Plato's Republic, the philosophical ruler