Plato’s Republic: Just Society or Totalitarian State

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Plato’s Republic: Just Society or Totalitarian State? In the Republic Plato lays out his analogy between the city and the individual soul and identifies personal happiness with public justice. With reason as the highest value, and the philosopher king as the embodiment of reason in the city, Plato proposes a political state that,

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