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Week four of my conversation here on the Hilldale Dialogue that's what the music

means with Dr Daniel tool professor at hilldale college all things hilldale are

founded hilldale dot edu we have been reading in this the Republic of Plato and we've been doing so carefully for three weeks

This is the fourth week. There's actually an introductory week as well in the series

Professor O'Toole we are are on page 45 of Allen Bloom, second edition.

And I want to read a paragraph to get us started.

Socrates says, it looks to me as though the investigation we are undertaking is no ordinary thing but one

but one for a man who sees sharply.

Since we're not clever men, Socrates says, in my opinion, we should make this a kind of investigation

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