Plato's Republic was a totalitarian nightmare, not a utopia - Big Think
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Plato's Republic contains ideas that many readers will find ugly, but figuring out why those ideas seem so ugly to us is a useful exercise.
Literature's first utopia shows how far we've come.
Plato's Republic by Simon Blackburn - Audiobook
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In Defense of Plato's Republic - Public Discourse
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Storytelling- The future of architecture. - RTF
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The Modernity Loop - Christopher F. Rufo
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Litteraly the darkest scenario I could possibly come up with (Pls
Has any nation in history tried to create a government based on
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Plato – A Totalitarian Advocate? – Retrospect Journal
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