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Republic IX: Socrates postulates the unjust feed the beast within themselves while the just feed what is fine within.

Republic: aetilochus creates one person who is perfectly just and wretched and another who is perfectly unjust and wealthy. Socrates proposes talking about justice in a city. Winding up with a discussion of which stories to tell the young.

Memo: Socrates reaches a conclusion opposite that of the one he reached in protagoras. Virtues is a gift from the gods; not teachable.

Republic: Cephalus talks of being old. Thrasymachus states justice is the rule of the strong over the weak; injustice is good and wise, etc. Socrates dialogues and tries to demonstrate injustice is a vice.

Gorgas: Socrates dialogues with gorgas, polus, and callicles. The topic is oratory and the moral value of rhetoric. Socrates concludes rhetoric is mainly flattery and can only result in justice when guided by philosophy.

Protagoras: Socrates interprets Simonides poem criticizing pittacus's for a man to become good is truly hard...

Protagoras: on Hippocrates behalf, Socrates asks protagoras if virtue can be taught. Protagoras reonds that it can and should. Socrates is not so sure and begins to question. Protagoras becomes somewhat upset bit the gathered sophists insist on the continued dialectic.

Alcibiades gives an amazing speech about Socrates.

Socrates relates the story of a discussion he once had with the woman from mantinea. Someone who is in love with beauty gives birth to virtue.

Symposium: Phaedra, Pausanias, some doctor, Aristophanes, agathon offer their views on love. Socrates goes next.