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What does Plato's Apology say about utopias? We hope it's all nice, otherwise he'll have to write an apology for his Apology .
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature plato's apology last
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month What does plato's apology say about utopias Plato's apology
- 00:18
is where he lays out a vision of the world
- 00:21
as it currently is And this is the whole reason
- 00:24
that he needs to imagine a utopia If the world
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you live in is perfect then why would you imagine
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a different like mohr Perfect world So he's trying to
- 00:35
imagine a new world in response to the world he
- 00:38
sees is deeply flawed The ideas that he explores in
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the apology are you know ideas of how this society
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is not falling apart but it's not as well regulated
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as it could be Students and young people are not
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being hot the correct ideas of justice So he basically
- 00:58
thinks we have an educational system and we have a
- 01:01
society set up But everything seems like somewhat Aw he
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questions the existence of the gods within the text He
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has soccer t's do it And socrates is criticized for
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it So what's happening in the apology is he's playing
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around with what ideas of what the world is and
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what the world could be and that's what leads him
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later in the republic to say like okay this is
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what The world should yeah what does plato's apology say 00:01:31.319 --> [endTime] about utopias Look
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