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The Replublic The Original Unabridged And Complete Edition (Plato Classics)

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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BCE, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and histor...

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The conversation was about the nature of justice and the speaker made the point that David Pecker's motives in business were to help his friends and harm his enemies, which he related to a quote from 'The Republic Book One' by Plato.

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Go back to Plato, the Republic Book One, what is justice? Justice is fucking your enemies and helping your friends, right? That's David Pecker's motives.

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The conversation was about the nature of justice and the speaker made the point that David Pecker's motives in business were to help his friends and harm his enemies, which he related to a quote from 'The Republic Book One' by Plato.

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Go back to Plato, the Republic Book One, what is justice? Justice is fucking your enemies and helping your friends, right? That's David Pecker's motives.

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