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I am a bit torn. As I understand it, Plato is forming this city to determine if any act performed by man can be inherently good. To answer ...

In his second argument of book 8, Socrates repeats his argument that the soul is divided into three parts: reason, the spirited part, and de...

I want to start by saying I am fairly decent at math, and at determining the various different applications, whether scientific or practical...

What I found to be the most interesting was the inevitable degeneration of the Just City in book 9. There was no way to spare it from this f...

Nobody would associate themselves with someone who acts irrationally or ridiculously.  The tyrannical man is absurd and promotes absurdity. ...

It shocked me that though I normally judge Plato rather harshly, most of his philosophy shares a foundation similar to my own. When he discu...

It's interesting to see how Plato describes the degeneration of the government. It's also interesting to see that the downfall is br...