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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,
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and yet very few of those members will have,
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so to speak, platonically just souls, that is to say,
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souls dominated by a kind of self-control or self-guardianship?
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That would certainly not be true of the members of the artisan class
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or the military class for that reason.
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So the question, that question is posed,
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that objection is posed by Adeimantus, you remember,
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at the beginning of Book IV. "What would your apology be Socrates,"
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Adeimantus says, "if it were objected that you're hardly