Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic
The New Thinkery
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Socrates and the Republic
The Republic is, by many Strauss, interpreted as a cautionary tale about glaucomon. It gets ultimately vulgarized and turned into a kind of a paradigm or model that you can just apply to politics within difference in each person. But it's a really it's it makes the cautionary tale. I think that was a really valuable point that I don't think many people recognize"
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