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Once again, in many ways, we see Socrates
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dissolving the bonds of the familiar.
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At no other point in the Republic,
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I think, do we see so clearly the tension
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between philosophical reflectiveness
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on the one hand in the sense of camaraderie,
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mutuality and esprit de corps necessary
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for political life on the other.
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Socrates seems to dissolve those bonds of familiarity,
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loyalty and attachment
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that we all have by saying to Polemarchus,
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"How do we know, how do we really know the distinction