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For Thursday, read the Myth of Er in the Republic (from "Well, said I, I will tell you a tale" to the end of the book); and the Gorgias myth (523-527, from ''Listen, then, as story-tellers say, to a very pretty tale'' to the end of the tale).

The link for the Republic:
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
The link for Gorgias myth:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/plato-dialogues-vol-2#lf0131-02_head_026

For today, we read a number of "myths" invented by Plato to describe what happens to the soul in the afterlife. We learned that Plato does not believe that justice should be chosen because of the rewards of the afterlife, or because of the fear of punishment in the afterlife. So why do you think that Plato has written these myths? There is no one perfect answer. Try to think of a reasonable explanation and offer evidence from one or more of the myths for today.