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Introduction to Plato's Republic | The New Thinkery Ep. 67

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What Are We Going to Be?

The city of Athens is no longer grounded in the traditional religion. The question is, can philosophy actually do this job? Can it give you confidence in a fully just community? Greg Shagan's had any head, his finger up. So I was hoping to jump in here. Oh, just a small point. Glaucon's, I think you're right that Glaucon doesn't likes Athens. He sort of finds a decadent and sort of there, these all these pasty faced waste rolls like through semius running about telling him the justice of the sham. And so Socrates easily realizes that what he wants is a beautiful city, a city that he can actually love.

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