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R4.5 Anatomy of the Soul | Plato's Republic, book 4 w/ Jonathan Lear

Ancient Greece Declassified

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Plato's Vision of Unity and Harmony

Plato deprives the quotano rulers of all money and property, and he allows the industrial class to have that. So it's kind of like he's tring to level the playing field, in a sense, between these three classes. Well, he's thinking about what makes each group as happy as it could be, given who they are. And that the deepest form of happiness is to think about the truth, how things really are.

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