I am not a pessimist and I believe things can improve. ... The Enlightenment utopia once dreamed of by the French and similar thinkers seems to have never succeeded. ... He observed that all incarnations of Enlightenment utopia failed to live up to their promised perfection. ... Chapter I-Enlightened Basis ?... He thought we could never obtain a good state unless the "philosophers became kings in our states."" ...

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