Plato's Republic: What is Justice?•Grade 9•rhetoric Stage
The City in Speech: Education of Guardians
The Text
What You'll Learn
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Comprehension
Identifies the two divisions of traditional education as gymnastic for the body and music (including literature) for the soul
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Cause & Consequence
Explains how stories in youth cause indelible character formation because the young cannot distinguish allegory from literal
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Meaning
Takes an original position on the passage's argument about education, censorship, or divine representations
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Defense
Steel-mans the counterargument (presents it in its strongest form)
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