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Are humans civilized, or are we just savages waiting to come out? William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies tackles that question.
This video defines utopias and dystopias, and investigates how a utopia might become a dystopia. Can a seemingly perfect world actually be a dystop...
Well, if this book doesn't make you want to tape over your laptop camera, we don't know what will.
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According to Plato, who would be an ideal candidate for a leader, and what type of speech should be allowed in society? Man, this Plato dude was sure full of opinions...
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature kings and speeches
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last month According to plato who would be an ideal
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candidate for a leader The ideal quality in a ruler
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is that they are someone who knows a lot what
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they know We'll be able to shape what they do
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So this should be someone who lives learning and hates
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ignorance Hate it's not knowing in this society the perfect
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person to fill that role is a philosopher So plato
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argues in the end that philosophers should be kings According
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to plato what type of speech should be allowed in
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society Plato is very specific about what types of speech
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he think should be allowed He basically says there are
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two types of speech There is truth and there is
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lies Lies covers all like fictional words So the logical
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extension of this is that you would ban fiction in
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this perfect city on so that's a little bit strange
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And this perfect utopian city starts to seem a little
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bit dystopian now that we're talking about censoring creative people
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potentially According to plato who would be an ideal candidate
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for a leader according to plato what type of speech 00:01:29.499 --> [endTime] should be allowed in society
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