Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic
The New Thinkery
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Credius's Regime of Priests
Credius is an atheist, he understands the oracle at Delphi as a kind of exoteric thing. Credius prefigures a modern totalitarian ruler who rules by abstractions. Calipolis is like glaucon and thresumicus: you don't need to rank his partners because you can have multiple sexual partners. And that's what we have in Calipolis right? I mean, Criti enters into it in this way.
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