:: : Well sophocracy derives from sophos + cracy, sophos meaning sage, not philosopher.
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:: I think sophocracy means more " rule of the wise " rather than " rule of philosophers ".
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"If Plato called his conception of governments a " sophocracy, " then a political system characterized by social experimentation with a scientific institutionalized base could be called a " noocracy . " Noocracy would not be the reign of the philosopher-king as seen in Plato.