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"-which has more pure being - that which is concerned with the invariable, the immortal, and the true, (...) or that which is concerned with and found in the variable and mortal, and is itself variable and mortal?
-Far purer is the being of that which is concerned with the invariable"
Plato, despite being concerned with the immortal, is himself invariably mortal. Therefore, he refuted his own reality.

After several revolutions, we have arrived at tyranny. So first, we have Timocracy, the rule of the honourable and by definition good but unsustainable, then aristocracy (or oligarchy) which is the evolution through luxuries from timocracy, then democracy, which is tackled in harsh terms (though take one late train and you'll agree with Socrates) to finally come to tyranny, which seems the death of the ideal state.

Socrates accurately (ish) predicting in what conditions a revolution happens.

The cave! It's the cave parable!

Boy, Socrates (and Plato) really didn't like artists.

"And the soul is like the eye: when resting upon that on which truth and being shine, the soul percieves and is radiant with intelligence; but when turned towards the twilight of becoming and perishing, then she has opinion only, and goes blinking about, and is first of one opinion and theb of another, and seems to have no intelligence?"

What a way to insult someone.

Apparently giving your money to women and/or slaves is bad.

It wouldn't be ancient Greece if we weren't treating women like disposable objects.

Justice stems from harmony, disharmony stems from people in disagreement with each other. Most disagreements stem from people fighting over stuff labeled "mine" or "not mine" and "his" and "not his".
Therefore, the most just state has no private property.
(The International starts playing in the background)