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In fact, the vast majority of citizens
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in even the platonically just city
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will not necessarily have platonically just souls.
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The harmony and self-discipline of the city will not be due,
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it seems, to each and every member of the city
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but rather will rely on the guardian class,
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that special class of philosopher kings who will rule,
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let it be recalled, through selective lies, myths,
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and other various kinds of deception.
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So how can it be the case if at all, that you could have a just city,
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that is to say a city where everyone is performing their own task,
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they're following the division of labor,