The Just City by Jo Walton7/6/2023 And although the children are well-treated and educated, they're not allowed to leave and must follow strict rules whose provenance they can’t entirely understand, since they’re not even allowed to read The Republic. The adults, known as “masters,” are generally happy to build the Just City, but not all the children are, especially since it’s strongly implied that the masters encouraged the growth of slavery in various eras by purchasing so many children. What happens when the goddess Athene tries to establish Plato's Republic on Atlantis, populated with a few hundred philosophers plucked from 2,500 years of history, more than 10,000 manumitted slave children and a handful of robot workers?įor some reason, Plato is not invited, but Socrates is welcome, as are a number of Plato's translators and devotees, including Plotinus and Cicero.
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