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between the fire and the prisoners, men carry objects whose shadows are cast on the wall.","spokenByCharacter":{"@type":"Person","name":"Plato"},"isPartOf":{"@type":"Book","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/the-republic-plato/","name":"The Republic","isbn":"9780140455113","offers":{"@type":"Offer","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140455116?tag=readstacks-20","seller":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon"}}},"citation":{"chapterTitle":"Book 7: The Allegory of the Cave","chapterSlug":"book-7-the-republic-plato","chapterUrl":"https://readstacks.com/books/the-republic-plato/book-7-the-republic-plato/"}},{"@type":"Quotation","@id":"https://readstacks.com/quotes/the-republic-plato/#quote-8","position":8,"text":"The kallipolis (aristocracy in Plato's technical sense — rule by the best) decays predictably through four worse regimes.","spokenByCharacter":{"@type":"Person","name":"Plato"},"isPartOf":{"@type":"Book","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/the-republic-plato/","name":"The Republic","isbn":"9780140455113","offers":{"@type":"Offer","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140455116?tag=readstacks-20","seller":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon"}}},"citation":{"chapterTitle":"Book 8: How Democracies Become Tyrannies","chapterSlug":"book-8-the-republic-plato","chapterUrl":"https://readstacks.com/books/the-republic-plato/book-8-the-republic-plato/"}},{"@type":"Quotation","@id":"https://readstacks.com/quotes/the-republic-plato/#quote-9","position":9,"text":"Plato turns to the psychology of the tyrant — and through it, to the final answer to Glaucon's challenge from Book 2.","spokenByCharacter":{"@type":"Person","name":"Plato"},"isPartOf":{"@type":"Book","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/the-republic-plato/","name":"The Republic","isbn":"9780140455113","offers":{"@type":"Offer","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140455116?tag=readstacks-20","seller":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon"}}},"citation":{"chapterTitle":"Book 9: The Tyrant's Soul","chapterSlug":"book-9-the-republic-plato","chapterUrl":"https://readstacks.com/books/the-republic-plato/book-9-the-republic-plato/"}},{"@type":"Quotation","@id":"https://readstacks.com/quotes/the-republic-plato/#quote-10","position":10,"text":"The poet is, on Plato's diagnosis, a teacher of bad psychology, even when (especially when) the poetry is beautiful.","spokenByCharacter":{"@type":"Person","name":"Plato"},"isPartOf":{"@type":"Book","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/the-republic-plato/","name":"The Republic","isbn":"9780140455113","offers":{"@type":"Offer","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140455116?tag=readstacks-20","seller":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon"}}},"citation":{"chapterTitle":"Book 10: Poetry and the Myth of Er","chapterSlug":"book-10-the-republic-plato","chapterUrl":"https://readstacks.com/books/the-republic-plato/book-10-the-republic-plato/"}}]}}