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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.
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What about, how can you have a platonically just city
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if most people in it, certainly most people of the auxiliary class
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are deprived of the pleasures and the goods that we desire?
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It's a question that lingers and one might wonder
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whether Socrates ever successfully answers that question.
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He silences Adeimantus in some way
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as he silences Thrasymachus earlier;
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that is not always to say that their objections have been answered.