Great Minds - Part 1 - Plato's Republic VI-X: The Architecture of Reality

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Covers Republic books VI–X: the sun, the divided line and the cave, and how they ground Plato's theory of Forms and the philosopher-king; dense but unusually clear exposition.

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Republic VI–X: the divided line, the cave and Plato's theory of Forms.

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