Well, were hoping that youre becoming increasingly uncomfortable with Platos republic, as surprising as that may sound. We expect a question to be looming in your mind. Is this city that Socrates is constructing, totalitarian? There perhaps are echoes of books youve read, that you hear in the Republic. Were thinking for example of those great novels we call dystopian (negative ideal), the opposite of utopian (ideal), of the 20th century. These include Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells 1984, which both may have been inspired by a great Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin and his book called We.
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