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Adeimantus says, "if it were objected that you're hardly
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making these men happy, these people just," he says at 419a.
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Adeimantus is concerned that Socrates is being unfair
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to the auxiliaries and the guardians,
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none of the pleasures
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that would seem to be the reward of responsibility.
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giving them all the responsibilities but none of the rewards,
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How can a citizen of Kallipolis live a just or happy life
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if he or she is deprived of most of the goods or pleasures that we seek?
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Socrates gives a rather lame response.
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In founding the city, he says, we are not looking to
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the exceptional happiness of any one individual or any group