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Plato's Republic

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Story of the Ring

The state is, as you said, in three parts, and each has to do its job. These three are supposed to be in balance inside. But before i go to the next question, he makes e match. He says that in both cases, a, when you consider the internal structure of both an individual soul and a city, he thinks the right thing to do is to consider each having three principal functions. And this goes back to a, this challenge that he seta at theat the end of book one, the beginning of book two.

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