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Plato's Atlantis

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Are We Meant to Believe This or Not?

Plato doesn't want anybody to know for all time whether it's true or false. He is pushing at the limits of what philosophical discourse might look like. Critiassus was ahead of the army in making a very different ideal republic. And I think Socrates himself, certainly Plato, agreed with almost everything that Criti has said about the ideal state. But he does not want to go so far as to be the mouthpiece of it.

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