The Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guide to Plato’s Republic, 2016a

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88 Will the Just Person Take Part in Politics? See 592a-b. Yes, the just person would be willing to take part in politics, Socrates thinks, but only “in his own city,” the aristocratic city. Should someone object that such a city is purely theoretical and has never existed on earth, Socrates’ reply is that “there may perhaps be a model of it in the heavens” – the form of justice, presumably – “for anyone who wishes to look at it and to found himself on the basis of what he sees.” Socrates suggests that the just person won’t take part in politics in the nonaristocratic city, because the honors involved “might overthrow the established condition of his soul.” But how? What threat does he have in mind? Can a wise politician do good only in a just city? What political obligations does a just person have in an unjust world? Back
Book X
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The Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guid
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19 Luxuries in the Just City 20 The
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Book IX 80 Lawless Desires 81 The R
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Book I
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Back Is it possible to persuade a
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3 Treasure for Heaven See 329d-331b
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5 The Craft of Justice See 332b-334
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6 Benefiting Friends and Harming En
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7 The Advantage of the Stronger See
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8 The Good Shepherd See 339a-348b.
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9 The Blushing Argument See 348b-35
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10 Function, Virtue, and the Soul S
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Book II
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12 The Social Contract Theory of Ju
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14 The Challenge See 360e-362c. Soc
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15 The Teaching of Justice See 362c
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16 Glaucon’s Lover See 368a. Not
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18 Making the Most of Differences S
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20 The Good Soldier See 374a-376e.
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22 Gods Causing Bad Things See 377d
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23 Gods in Disguise or Speaking Fal
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24 Fear and Grief See 386a-388e. So
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Back Can a distinction be made bet
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27 Narrative Style and Personal Int
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28 The Emotional Power of Tune and
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29 Love of the Fine and Beautiful S
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sexually attractive the lovers may
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31 Doctors and Judges See 405a-410a
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32 Harmony in the Soul See 410a-412
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33 Rulers See 412b-414b. It has bee
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35 Private Property, Private Intere
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36 The City as a Whole See 419a-423
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37 Lawfulness Internalized, Legisla
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38 Wisdom in the City See 427d-429a
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40 Temperance in the City See 430d-
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Back families you may be fortunate
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pleasures of the body, with sensual
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43 The Spirited Part of the Soul Se
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Back sufficient to prove that Socra
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Back appetitive part can be educate
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Book V
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47 The Natures of Men and Women See
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Back Consider school sports teams.
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50 The Waging of War See 466c-471e.
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51 Philosophers and Knowledge of th
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Back imagined on the other? If so,
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52 The Virtues of the Philosopher S
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Back Is the kind of understanding
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Back Do the people who would make
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Back provided to ordinary students?
Page 104 and 105: 57 The Form of the Good See 504a-50
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Page 114 and 115: 63 The Craft of Education See 518b-
Page 116 and 117: 65 Numbers as Summoners See 521c-52
Page 118 and 119: 66 Further Mathematical Studies See
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Page 122 and 123: 70 Completing the Education of the
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Page 130 and 131: 75 The Oligarchic City See 550c-552
Page 132 and 133: 76 The Oligarchic Soul See 553a-555
Page 134 and 135: 77 The Democratic City See 555b-558
Page 136 and 137: 78 The Democratic Soul See 558c-562
Page 138 and 139: 79 The Tyrannical City See 562a-569
Page 140 and 141: Book IX
Page 142 and 143: 81 The Right Way to Fall Asleep See
Page 144 and 145: Back Imagine a person who is obses
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Page 148 and 149: 85 The Third Proof: True Pleasures
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Page 152 and 153: 87 An Emblem of the Soul See 588b-5
Page 156 and 157: 89 Return to Poetry See 595a. In Bo
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Page 160 and 161: 92 A Call to Poetry’s Defenders S
Page 162 and 163: 94 The Soul Without Barnacles See 6
Page 164 and 165: 96 Suffering, Philosophy, and the C
Page 166 and 167: INDEX Numbers are to the 96 section
Page 168 and 169: Definition, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 29, 38,
Page 170 and 171: 43, 74, 90, 96 Homosexuality, 16 Ho
Page 172 and 173: Painters and painting, 19, 29, 56,
Page 174 and 175: 79, 82, 83 Suffering, 6, 12, 14, 22
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