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turns to his first and perhaps even his
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most controversial proposal for
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the establishment of the just city.
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"The creation of the just city can only begin," he says,
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"with the control of music, poetry and the arts."
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And this is where Plato's image as an educator drives.
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The first order of business for the founder of a city,
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any city, is the oversight of education.
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And his proposals for the reform of poetry,
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especially Homeric poetry,
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represent clearly a radical departure from
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Greek educational practices and beliefs.