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April 25, 2013
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to-read
(Other Paperback Edition)
April 25, 2013
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(Other Paperback Edition)
December 30, 2013
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Started Reading
December 30, 2013
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December 30, 2013
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0.18%
"I've always thought of The Republic as a political piece. However, in the Oxford edition I'm reading, Robin Waterfield argues strongly that it's a morality text. He argues that Plato uses the community as an analogy for the individual."
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January 3, 2014
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4.82%
""Anyone who is caught caught committing the merest fraction of these crimes is not only punished, but thoroughly stigmatized as well ... On the other hand, when someone appropriates the assets of the citizen body and then goes on to rob them of their very freedom and enslave them, then denigration gives way to congratulation..." - Thrasymachus"
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January 17, 2014
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20.36%
""It's the person who makes the best blend of physical exercise and culture, and who applies them to the mind in the right proportions, whom we should really describe as a virtuoso and as having the most harmony in his life." -Plato"
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January 20, 2014
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21.07%
"Guardians are "people who ensure that neither the desire nor the capacity for harming the community arises, whether from external enemies or from internal friends.""
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118
January 20, 2014
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21.96%
""We're not constructing our community with the intention of making one group within it especially happy, but to maximize the happiness of the community as a whole." - Plato"
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February 10, 2014
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31.61%
""The best-run community is the one in which as many people as possible use these expressions, "mine" and "not mine", to refer to the same things in the same respects.""
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177
March 30, 2014
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32.68%
""Do you think they (children of auxiliaries) should be provided with a risk-free life?" - Socrates"
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June 8, 2016
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Finished Reading
