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In the cave analogy, the connection between private morality and political justice is:
{ 1 } - the person who knows the good will share it with the political community.
{ 2 } - education is unnecessary for political life.
{ 3 } - others can force someone to share himself.
{ 4 } - religion is separate from politics.
{ 5 } - one can know communication without communicating.
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In the cave analogy, the connection between private morality and political justice is:
{ 1 } - the person who knows the good will share it with the political community.
{ 2 } - education is unnecessary for political life.
{ 3 } - others can force someone to share himself.
{ 4 } - religion is separate from politics.
{ 5 } - one can know communication without communicating.
See page 65: "Anyone who is to act wisely in private or public must have caught sight of this" (the idea of the good), and 70: "the person who sees the good must share it without restriction or he has not really seen it.
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In the cave analogy, the connection between private morality and political justice is:
{ 1 } - the person who knows the good will share it with the political community.
{ 2 } - education is unnecessary for political life.
{ 3 } - others can force someone to share himself.
{ 4 } - religion is separate from politics.
{ 5 } - one can know communication without communicating.
See page 65: "Anyone who is to act wisely in private or public must have caught sight of this" (the idea of the good).
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In the cave analogy, the connection between private morality and political justice is:
{ 1 } - the person who knows the good will share it with the political community.
{ 2 } - education is unnecessary for political life.
{ 3 } - others can force someone to share himself.
{ 4 } - religion is separate from politics.
{ 5 } - one can know communication without communicating.
Sharing oneself, or virtue, obviously comes from inner motivation.
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In the cave analogy, the connection between private morality and political justice is:
{ 1 } - the person who knows the good will share it with the political community.
{ 2 } - education is unnecessary for political life.
{ 3 } - others can force someone to share himself.
{ 4 } - religion is separate from politics.
{ 5 } - one can know communication without communicating.
This is an illusion that comes from a misinterpretation of the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. It is not an illusion that Socrates, Plato, or the compatriots suffered under.
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In the cave analogy, the connection between private morality and political justice is:
{ 1 } - the person who knows the good will share it with the political community.
{ 2 } - education is unnecessary for political life.
{ 3 } - others can force someone to share himself.
{ 4 } - religion is separate from politics.
{ 5 } - one can know communication without communicating.
This statement goes against common experience, and opposes the Socratic-Platonic position that virtue is knowledge.
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