/lit/ - Literature

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He says multiple times throughout the dialogue that city is allegorical to the individual, and the entire conceit was to find out what justice is to the individual by enlarging the concept into a city. It is no mistake that the 3 classes in Plato's republic align perfectly with the tripartite account of the soul in Phaedrus. Now, The Republic isn't purely an ethics text, not everything is allegorical, but it surely isn't just a text on politics either.