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Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic

The New Thinkery

CHAPTER

The Importance of Socrates in Plato's Life

Bess: I thought one of the most valuable things, and we'll get to this maybe more in depth later, those valuable things that I got at this is that this isn't really just a study of the Republic, but it's got in way a kind of nutshell reading of most of Plato specifically. And Xenophon,. according to Bess, yeah. But coming out of like the carmities, for example, the Tameus Chritius, you really do set up a really persuasive narrative about, again, Socrates and Chritius fishing in the same stream of youth.

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