Swillsburg City Limits (the 'city of Pigs': Republic 370c-372d)
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At Repl/blic 370c-372d, Plato presents us with an early polis that is self-sufficient. peaceful, cooperative, and which provides a comfortable life for its inhabitants. While Glaucon derides this polis as a 'city for pigs', Socrates is quick to defend its virtues characterizing it as a city which is not only 'complete' (te/ea), but a 'true' (alEtilil/e polis) and 'healthy' city (hugies tis) (37Ie-372e). Is Plato sincere when he lauds the city of pigs? If so, why does the city of pigs degenerate so precipi tously into the luxurious city (truphOsa polis)? Some commentators have been unable to find any place for the 'city of pigs' in the substantive argument of the Republic. Other commentators have supposed that the source of instability in the city of pigs is the nature of human desire. I argue that these interpretations miss what is most deeply interesting about the city of pigs. On my reading, the city of pigs is healthy and true in that it is a unified community. However, this unity depends on good fortune, is highly contingent, and thus unstable.
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