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ruling_class
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[ noun ] (sociology) the class of people exerting power or authority
Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Moreover , it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato 's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods , wives , and children , was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; and it is to this problem that the Republic ultimately returns . Related terms |
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