Plato's Republic
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Is He a Great Failure?
Takehe: I think he asks the right questions but his answers are often too extreme. But i don't think it's a failure if you are asking the right questions, and some of the answers he gives contain nuggets within them which are still very useful to us. So he's askin right question, bu humming up with some interesting ideas. A lot of his solutions, i think, are too extreme. He fails becausencleer you say he failed because he encouraged or laid the way for what could be toteltarian state and authoritarian state - that sort of thing. Have i got this completely wrong, or should i read from your notes?
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