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Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic

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The Importance of Glaukine in Politics

Socrates is not just a main guy in the dialogue, like people are reflecting on Glaukine. I think you're right that there are these glaukon types to recur. Alcibiades is one of them. These types always fail. Like they can't, they never actually get the education. That's what's really the Adam Ants type. And so happened that my relatives were heading up this regime. So they're actually talker. Well, he's very adamant about a lot of things, but you know, he's not adamant about being humorous, that's for sure. But yes, like the six dimensional chess thing for sure, right?

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