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V efinition of Justice, the just city and just man
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are rulers, or Guardians, of
lato's Utopian Gallipolis. f his ideal city-state is
to ever come into being, "philosophers [must]
become kings͙or those now called kings
[must]͙genuinely and adequately philosophize
V drgued for an intellectual aristocracy
V lato͛s student
V Believed that philosophers could rely on their
senses and then use reason to sort it out
V Wrote
{ ©nly one thing could justify monarchy, and that
was if the virtue of the king and his family were
greater than the virtue of the rest of the citizens
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V 2ellenistic Religion and hilosophy all
addressed individuals in their search for
direction in a complex world