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That leads to our next topic that
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I want to pursue for the remainder of
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the class, the reform of poetry and the arts.
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Socrates' city speech proceeds through several stages.
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The first stage proposed by Adeimantus is the simple city,
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what he calls the city of utmost necessity.
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That is a city limited to
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the satisfaction of certain basic needs.
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The primitive or simple city,
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the city of utmost necessity, again
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it expresses the nature of Adeimantus' own soul,
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there is a kind of noble simplicity in him