Plato's Republic: What is Justice?•Grade 9•rhetoric Stage
The City in Speech: Origins
The Text
What You'll Learn
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Comprehension
Accurately recalls the short-sighted person analogy for reading larger letters first and explains its purpose for studying justice in the state before the individual
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Cause & Consequence
Explains how human wants and lack of self-sufficiency cause the formation of the state with partners and exchange
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Meaning
Takes an original position on the core moral that humans form cities because no one is self-sufficient or on the purpose of the city in speech to reveal justice
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Defense
Steel-mans the counterargument (presents it in its strongest form)
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- 1.Read the text carefully
- 2.Answer the tutor's questions in your own words
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