Plato’s Republic XVI

The political problem of love

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At the end of Book IV we are told that there is only one form of virtue and an unlimited number of forms of vice and that is it likely that there are as many types of regimes as there are types of soul. This is because the character of the regime comes from the character of the ruling class.