Justice, the ideal state and the Allegory of the Cave — the foundation of Western philosophy.
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Written 2,400 years ago, Plato's Republic asked who deserves to rule — and we still haven't settled the question.
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I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess (Bendis, the Thracian Artemis.); and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing. I…
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