
#10 - What Is Justice? Plato's Republic: Book I
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Is This Book an Inspiration to Utopians?
The first 50 hundred lines or so are very importanfor setting everything up. But behind there is this big question. Is it a book, a practical manual of government? Is it meant to be? It's about as practical a manual for discussion as a wine tasting at my housemn. i end up with that loose talk in a web of ideas that don't quite hang together on complete analysis. As you go through, things develop. The question is: where in that conversation are we saying the idea that we want to turn into a vast thesis and o vast vision for what government should be?
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