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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature justice Lash me

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What does plato say about justice in republic plate are

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is writing in ancient greece and he is working with

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the idea of what a city is and what a

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nation is and how to build one And so basically

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he's depicting a dialogue between two of the students including

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socrates who you may have heard of and they are

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discussing the concept of justice which is more or less

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fairness when you do something bad Are you punished for

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it If you do something good or you rewarded for

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it and they're talking about whether or not this is

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the essential principle for life in order to figure this

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out the kind of detour through the whole idea of

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how you would build a city state and the first

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thing is that cities need kind of blue whales and

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regulations they need people who have certain jobs and do

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those jobs they need you know ideas of where different

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people are going to live and they need structures so

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that people know what to do all day They are

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basically discussing how a city needs to fulfill its citizens

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basic needs food and housing and clothing and this is

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supposed to be the building blocks of justice although we're

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still not quite there yet Plato thinks a really long

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time to get there What does plato say about justice 00:01:40.619 --> [endTime] in republic

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