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October 8, 2021
Plato’s Republic Books 8-9: Degradation of Soul

Plato’s Republic Books 8-9: Degradation of Soul

This essay examines books VIII-IX of the Republic and sets forth Plato’s account of the characterological decay of the individual soul. Just as city’s degenerate with time, falling from philosophical aristocracy to timocracy, timocracy to oligarchy, oligarchy to democracy, and democracy to tyranny, so too do the individuals who live within them. Indeed, Socrates notes …

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