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A word for Karl Popper: “As Cicero has observed, the Republic does not bring to light the best possible regime but rather the nature of political things… of what character the city would have to be in order to satisfy the highest need of man. By letting us see that the city constructed in accordance with this requirement is not possible, he lets us see the essential limits, the nature, of the city.”

On Plato’s Republic