Introduction to Plato's Republic | The New Thinkery Ep. 67
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Moral Education
Socrates in many places, including here, has learned quite a bit from Homer. He even holds out the possibility there could be some poet that does this really well. The problem, of course, is that people do take them literally and the literal models are bad models for human lives. It's one of the few times he talks about wisdom in moral education passage but they just kick him out anyways.
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