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The Common Man on Trial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Helmut Kuhn
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Extract

“I Must take recourse to fiction and put together a figure made up of many things like the fabulous unions of goats and stags which are found in pictures." So speaks the philosopher in Plato's Republic when he faces the enigmatic nature of the common man or the people. Then he proceeds to evoke two images.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1944 , pp. 18 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1944

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