How the Just Life Is Best | Republic Book 9

In Republic Book 9, Plato argues that the just life is happier/more excellent/objectively better than the unjust life

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0:00 Plato answers Glaucon's Challenge
0:51 This video will examine 2 of Plato's arguments
1:04 Analysis of the tyrannical soul & city
1:33 The tyrannical soul is unable to do what it wishes
2:00 The tyrant is even more wretched than the tyrannical-souled man
2:44 The tyrant lives in a kind of prison
3:09 What the three parts of the soul love, take pleasure in
3:41 Who has experience of all three types of pleasure? The philosopher.

Discussion Question 1: How is the tyrannical soul unfree?
Discussion Question 2: How is the tyrannical-souled tyrant more unhappy than the tyrannical-souled person without political power?

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Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis

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