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Article aside, love is willing the good of the other. Wisdom is excellence of knowledge, especially first causes. (Practical wisdom is excellence in practical knowledge and prudence.) Translation: power is good when exercised by competent and good willed people.

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That looks like something to work with. Now the thesis becomes somewhat testable.

I would argue that power should be constructed so it does not matter what the personality of the person in power is. Clear rules and checks and balances.

And the rules should be made by the ones seen as loving and wise.

And that is what in fact is happening to some degree in democracies.

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