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36 | What is Utopia? Part II. Plato's Republic (with Owen Alldritt)

What's Left of Philosophy

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The City of Words

i think that this time through the republic and and the stuff i've been thinking about recently, i think it's a combination of the second way and the third way that he's described that relates them right. So not only is there a real unity that we're alking about, but it matters that there is a realunity that we're talking about because the tyrant, for example, takes advantage of the elements of the real city while perhaps not even recognizing that he's doing. Hm, so for example, i think that this comes out in his conversation in the end of book one, where he we're talkingabout the band of thiebes rit and socrates forces th

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