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Who persuades Socrates and Glaucon to remain in the Piraeus?
Why does Cephalus value wealth for a good person?
Which example challenges the idea that justice always means repaying debts?
What does Thrasymachus identify justice with?
What must Socrates show in response to Glaucon and Adeimantus?
What does Glaucon use Gyges's invisibility to suggest?
How do the inhabitants of the first imagined State meet their needs?
What kinds of models may guardians imitate?
For whom do the speakers reserve useful lying?
Which qualities should the retained musical forms support?
How does Socrates answer the concern about the guardians' happiness?
Where does Socrates locate justice in the city?
What does Socrates say about wealth and poverty?
What determines whether women qualify for guardian duties?
What does Socrates identify as the measure of a unified state?
What objection does Adeimantus raise about committed philosophers?
What does the neglected skilled pilot illustrate?
What do the chained prisoners mistake for reality?
What must enlightened philosophers do despite their preference for contemplation?
Which study must come before astronomy in the corrected sequence?
Which political order follows aristocracy in the decline described?
What does timocracy especially prize?
What leads to the establishment of democracy in the account of decline?
What helps cause aristocracy's decline in the Muses' account?
What turns a democratic character into a tyrannical one?
What happens as the tyrannical man tries to feed his desires?
Who suffers more than the privately tyrannical person?
Why does Socrates object to imitative poetry?
Which sequence illustrates imitation's distance from truth?
How does Socrates distinguish user, maker, and imitator?
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