/lit/ - Literature

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Hahaha well I think that the role of the dichotomy of subject/object (and the unity that follows) isn't appreciated to the appropriate extent in any scholarship. This was really, in a sense, his central theme. To understand the republic, study each of the images mentioned (physician, Shepherd, craftsman, merchant, husbandman, guardian, confectioner, pilot of ship, charioteer, mathematician, wrestler, geometrician, philosopher) by the cast with regard to the relationship between the parties concerned (Shepherd/sheep, doctor/patient, etc), the end/goal of the agent in each scenario, and the knowledge that should be looked to for the purpose of the agent doing its work well.