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Superstructure: Plato’s Republic (Part 1)

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Socrates, Justice Is So Small, Is It So Small?

Socrates says that justice is written large in the city, and if we can imagine different kinds of cities, maybe we will then be able to see it writ large. He also argues that there's no connection between the or direct connection between the just or righteous individual and the just orrighteous city. But at the very end does socrates come back to the individual again, talk about the individual,. Most of it ends at being called the rep - a terms given to it in latin for the state, the government, the public sphere.

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