Love and Human Motivation in the Republic (part 1)

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Reading my way once again through a text I've been revisiting for more than two decades, Plato's Republic, I never fail -- any time I read it anew -- to be struck by some novel, or perhaps not entirely novel but at least forgotten or passed over, feature of the work and of Plato's thought.  I'm happy to be teaching it again this semester, at least por

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