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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
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but rather to the city as a whole.
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And Adeimantus appears to accept that response,
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oh yes, I forgot we are concerned with the happiness,
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the justice of the whole.
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But his question is still one that lingers
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and one that Plato includes for a purpose.