36 | What is Utopia? Part II. Plato's Republic (with Owen Alldritt)
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Unity of the Soul, Like Injustice Causes Discord
The idea of the real unity being presupposed of the city or of the soul, comes up at some point. In a discussion with withthusymicus, socrates says something like, can't you at least agree with me that injustice causes discord? And then he sas, obstructs co operation. It obstructs cooperation. But then he even says, the same goes for an individual, right? Like injustice makes an individual divided against himself,. Such that the unity of the soul is compromised in and through, like, you know, injust participation in injustice.
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