First, I believe that the arts are no more damaging to character than any form of literature. ... During Plato's time, he believes the republic is possible because of the possibility of majority socially educated people. ... He places a great deal of emphasis on the importance of words addressing someone and having the opportunity to generate conversation to receive an answer. ... Thus at any given moment of its historical existence, language is heteroglot from top to bottom: it represents the co-existence of socio-ideological contradictions between the present and the past, between d...

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