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Comment: “State is individual writ _large.” (Plato)

  • UPSC 2006, 2005
  • Western Political Thought

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The formula is not a sentence in Plato's text but the standard English summary of his method in Book II of the Republic (368c–369a). Justice is hard to see in a single soul, so Socrates proposes to read the "larger letters" of the city first and then the smaller letters of the individual. The city–soul…

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