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According to Plato, what kind of rules does a Utopia need to control music and fitness? Clearly, Plato never listened to Gloria Estefan, who knew there was no use in controlling music because eventually, the rhythm is gonna get you.
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Musical fitness last
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month According to plato what kind of rules as a
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utopia need to control music and fitness Other rules include
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like a real preference for what played our calls music
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and gymnastics So music really corresponds to all of the
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artistic and philosophical pursuits and when he talks that gymnastic
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pursuits he means exercise and activity He wants all citizens
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to have these two things in harmony with each other
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not too much of one not too much of the
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other And this is really the whole principle of his
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utopia Is that in order to have a perfect society
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you need clearly set regulations so that citizens can have
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balanced ordered regulated lives And this idea comes out over
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and over again in the earliest visions of utopian societies
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Order regulation balance like cleanliness simplicity Those are what's going
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to add up to like a nice life for everyone
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According to plato what kind of rules as a utopia 00:01:18.139 --> [endTime] need to control music and fitness Oh yeah
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