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The Just City, by Jo Walton
Plato was the first dystopic writer. I didn't realize it when I read The Republic in college. But when Jo Walton decides to use Plato's thought experiment about what it would take to build a truly "just city," it seems that all Plato was missing was a plucky heroine or two short of a young adult novel. Plato's thought experiment posited that if a population of 10-year-olds were taught by wise guardians, under a prescribed regimen of exercise and education, they could grow to be their "best selves." Some of them could become philosopher kings...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
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