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between lawlessness and tyranny.
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It is in this section of the Republic, Adeimantus asks,
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won't we with Aeschylus say whatever comes to our lips?
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Won't we say with Aeschylus whatever comes to our lips?
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The idea of having the liberty to say whatever comes to our lips
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sounds to Plato like a kind of blasphemy.
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The view that nothing is shameful,
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that everything should be permitted, to say whatever comes to our lips
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comes from the denial of any restraints on our desires
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or a kind of relativistic belief
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that all desires are equal and all should be permitted.
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Plato's views on democracy were not all negative, to be sure.