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Ep. 122: A Complete and Total Shutdown on Celebrities

Young Heretics

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Can the Calipolis Ever Be Real?

Roland Martin: Can the calipolis ever be real? Is this sor of actual serious political project? Or is this something thats, you know, i kind of tongue and cheek. Maybe can never really exist, but it sets us up with a kind of ideal to think, think with. And here's what glaucon and socrates have to say about that subject. At the end of book nine, he says, the man who has intelligence will strain all his powers to that end - as long as he lives in the first place.

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