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36 | What is Utopia? Part II. Plato's Republic (with Owen Alldritt)

What's Left of Philosophy

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The City Is Not Just a Dispute, It's a Disposition

i thought that the notion of the city was just basically no om socrates saying, well, we're going to figure out, you how to order an individual soul. But what you said there was actually more precise. I's not just tha republic is an argument by analogy. It's actually that there is a relay of connection between the correctly ordered soul and the correctly ordered city. And so the city becomes disordered in so far as myriad dispositions inhabit this common space.

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