As a final note on Plato's political philosophy, we turn to…

As a final note on Plato's political philosophy, we turn to the interpretation of Georgics given in Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy. This work is often seen as anti-tyranny but is easily interpreted as anti-overt tyranny and pro-covert tyranny. Not to go into too much detail, a character called Callicles argues loudly that the weak deserve to be oppressed by the strong. Socrates treats Callicles as more interesting than other characters who seem to take more moderate positions. Socrates does not actually refute Callicles's position but seems to say that his position is imprudent rather than wrong. Thus, the real meaning of the dialog may be that Callicles is a potential candidate to be groomed into the nocturnal council and the others are not.