The Republic, Book 9: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. Socrates identifies unlawful desires revealed in dreams and describes how a dominant passion turns a democratic character into a tyrannical one.
2. The tyrannical man exhausts his resources, attacks his parents, and commits crimes to feed desires that never find satisfaction.
3. Comparing souls with cities, Socrates argues that the public tyrant suffers even more than the privately tyrannical person.
4. He ranks rational self-rule highest in happiness and argues that philosophers judge pleasures best through experience, wisdom, and reason.
5. He distinguishes genuine pleasure from mere relief and calculates that the king lives 729 times more pleasantly than the tyrant.
6. An image combining a monster, lion, and human explains justice as inner government; the discussion closes with the ideal city as a personal model.

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