Superstructure: Plato’s Republic (Part 1)
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Plato's Dialogue
Mykewrites dialogues, for the most part, involve two or more characters discussing important issues. And often socrates is featured as the lead character whose kind of aegrudgingly convening these conversations. So we're hearing socrates recollection of what they said the whole time. There's an interesting extra layer there. You have this problem already that everything plato does, heis never speaking in his own voice. It functions as a sacrifice and a heroic one.
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