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Ep. 086 - On Plato’s Republic

Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education

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The Ancient City and the End of the Ancient City

I'll begin then by noting my interest in this text. It immediately or almost immediately starts to pose questions about what justice is, how we should live. There's a kind of historical interest that I have in the Republic that I hope you will come to have in theRepublic as well. One of its great themes is the end of the city, the end ofThe ancient pagan polis. The Ancient City by Numa Denise Fustel de Coulange - an 1864 book by a French classicist historian.

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