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Imagine that.
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Sophocles will be expelled from the just city
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that Socrates wants to create.
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This always raises the question
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that you will discuss in your section,
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whether or not Socrates' censorship of poetry and
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the arts is an
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indication of his totalitarian impulses.
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This is the part of the Republic most likely to call
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up our own first amendment instincts.
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"Who are you, Socrates,"
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we are inclined to ask,