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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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You're Not Going to Make Perfect People

Stannerlane orely: "I don't think that you can actually change human nature, but yet, this is all going to go on. You have to like, channel it appropriately" He says there's a constant movement back and forth between these imperfect elements and how they can be brought into some sort of stable harmony. The author draws on the allegory of the cave when in his early period,. the town to tenth and he's tringd tha estand so what is the relationship between the rulers and the rule between the leaders and the led? And it is not necessarily an organic relationship. No, it is. Yo, it can bea incredibly fractious relationship that requires

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