Introduction to Plato's Republic | The New Thinkery Ep. 67
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Book Review - Socrates
Socrates, who's the main character in almost all the platonic dialogues, he goes out of town to a port called the Piraeus. He gets held up by some young men who want to keep him and detain him. And so Socrates ends up being persuaded more or less to stay in the pirate Piraeus outside of the city limits. The rest of the book is Socrates trying to rise to a challenge issued by Glaukon and Animantis.
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