Here, it seems, my dear Glaucon, a human being faces the greatest danger of all
(Republic, Bk. 10, 618b). What are the relative roles of chance, lived experience, and
educated reason in shaping the fate of a human being, according to the Myth of Er (at the
end of the Republic)? How does this story of the afterlife illustrate or challenge ideas that
we find elsewhere in the Republic (or in our other Platonic texts)?
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