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John Fielding,
CEO
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He is currently completing a book entitled Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic and is editing Ayn Rand's marginalia.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Plato's allegory of the cave in the "Republic" similarly reflects the centrality of the cosmic light of wisdom.
Plato's communist republic was the dream of Porphyry, Plotinus, and Iamblichus, the ideal of perfection employed to refute Christianity.
Is not the Republic the vehicle of three or four great truths which, to Plato's own mind, are most naturally represented in the form of the State?
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Read Plato's Republic and Other Great Writings at Constitution Society.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Plato's "Republic" and Friedrich Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" are examined for their treatments of friendship, which differ in fundamental differences encompassing the order of civilization itself.
But Plato's Republic and his dream society of Atlantis were markedly different from what Americans recognize as their republic.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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In Plato's Republic , Thrasymachus puts forward a view like that of Callicles: justice is obeying the law, which is made in the interests of the rulers (e.
Plato's Republic makes it clear that it also concerned itself with things we regard today as being trivial - such as the question of rhythm.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Plato's Republic is basically an attempt to ensure for society continued leadership of high calibre, and such examples can be multiplied from the classic literature of all lands.
In Plato's Republic, Plato discusses how, through force, an unjust state could win favor.
What is interesting about the Republic from our point of view is the emphasis on a good education for the elite group in charge of Plato's ideal society.
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