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... Plato's whole life was in effect an effort to find a means to restore order and purpose in a community that was becoming progressively disorganized , banal , and pur- poseless : in which the divine was succumbing to the all - too ...
... Plato's whole life was in effect an effort to find a means to restore order and purpose in a community that was becoming progressively disorganized , banal , and pur- poseless : in which the divine was succumbing to the all - too ...
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... Plato sought to redeem woman's lot by following the Spartan mode of according women equality with the men and by freeing both sexes from the burdens of re- strictive domesticity . The guardians had all things in common , even their ...
... Plato sought to redeem woman's lot by following the Spartan mode of according women equality with the men and by freeing both sexes from the burdens of re- strictive domesticity . The guardians had all things in common , even their ...
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... Plato . He was not so definite as Plato as to the size of his ideal commonwealth ; but the problem he sought to solve was just as lim- ited : what size of territory , what numbers , will enable a people to live to itself and survive by ...
... Plato . He was not so definite as Plato as to the size of his ideal commonwealth ; but the problem he sought to solve was just as lim- ited : what size of territory , what numbers , will enable a people to live to itself and survive by ...
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INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN ERA 17 | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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