... uses these justifications to banish poets and various types of speech from his city. Specifically, he wants poets not admitted into the city because poetry "produces a bad regime in the soul of each private man by making phantoms that are very far removed from the truth " (289). The implication here is that poets are dangerous and must be banned not because they are subversive to ... the government of the city by criticizing rulers but because they are subversive to men's souls, which may be indirectly threatening for the city itself. But the problems with this ... are responsible or e...

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... worthy of being remembered for his heroism, no matter his standing, if he is able to serve his state. Conversely, a poor man who commits treason or murder should suffer the same punishment as a rich man who commits the same crimes. Pericles praises Athenian law for its ability to teach men to set aside all differences and live at peace with one another. An uneducated ... those who are not natural born Athenians, are seen as equal and are given the same opportunities because of the law. A foreign man who is ready to live by Athenian law should never be considered inferior to a man born i...

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... which those views about justice are to be overcome. Traditionally justice was regarded as one of the cardinal virtues; to avoid injustices and to deal equitable with both equals and inferiors was seen as what was expected of the good man, but it was not clear how the benefits of justice were to be reaped. Socrates wants to persuade from his audience to adopt ... appear to be just than to be just for the sake of justice. Glaucon tells the myth of the ring. If two men, one just and the other unjust, possess a ring that would make them invisible when warn and allow them to do as they pleas...

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... there seems to be something common to them. From the lines of the sunset and the almost perfectly triangular shape of the volcano to the carefully studied proportions of architectural designs and the sharply defined muscles of an athletic man, we see the very elements of the art that measures the world that I spoke of. This art is geometry "the measuring of Earth. By practicing it we will be ... the man who's finding it. It is their truth and accuracy that makes Euclid's discoveries beautiful. The fact that they can only be appreciated outside the material world, in a realm that's only...

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