Ep. 086 - On Plato’s Republic
Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education
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Plato's Lecture on Justice
Thrissimachus sort of stands in for what Athens has become by the time this dialogue takes place. Pericles himself the great Athenian states been told that what you hold is in fact a tyranny over other cities perhaps it was wrong to take it but no matter it's unsafe to let it go at this juncture so you just have to figure out how to rule others tyrannically and accept that. Socrates moves through and somehow cuts down all three of these embodiments of the city or in bodies of three aspects of the city emerging at the end as the victor against all challengers I will say just two more brief things on this and then and then I'm going to be done with my
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