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u can't be told, teacher. I like disciplines that deal with people more. I would like to work in the health sector, whose raw material is human. I am interested in cancer research, gene therapy, microbiology. Even though I don't speak your language well enough, the book Double Helix that I read impressed me a lot. Isn't it a miracle that DNA replicates itself, teacher?

-you are absolutely right. However, miracles do not happen only in genetic engineering. It is also a miracle that there are infinite numbers between two numbers. I recommend studying history of science and philosophy. You will realize that you have entered a magical world. I'll get philosophy books out of the library for you.

The Defense of Socrates is a book I can recommend. You must explore the platonic world!

From the mouth of Socrates, Plato explains his plan for the whole to us: Socrates, after stating that they have progressed as far as necessary in their studies, says that they should return to their original argument, which had taken them so far, and II. He cites the views of Glaucon and Adeimantus at the beginning of the book. According to Socrates, who found the greatest happiness in the perfection of the soul by rejecting all kinds of happiness based on external facts, the factor that will carry us to this highest level is pure science. Socrates once again reminds us of the philosopher's highest duty; This is to work in the service of the state of Ideas he founded. Thus IX. He has reached the end of the Book and II. We will also get the answers to the questions posed in the book. Issues outside of this main theme can be seen as a kind of complementary, supporting parts. At first glance, it is possible to get the impression that other thematic sections are also predominant. For example, II. and III. A subject that has been extensively discussed in the book "the rejection of literature (writing/poetry) in the ideal state" appears once again at the end and seems to refute our thesis that Politeia circulates around a single main theme; This gives the impression of an added section that does not establish an organic connection with the whole; then IX. Starting from the Book, we encounter an explanation describing the rewards of the just in this world and the next. Is there a shallow, flat understanding of altruism (being away from selfishness) here; a shallowness that would damage the whole thought of Plato? However, we cannot claim that we are dealing with neither a random addition nor such a shallowness. These sections also have links to the main topic. Because in the process of selecting and educating the officials of the ideal state, music and literature were assigned as important educational and training forces in the watchdog state; meanwhile, old and existing literature was rejected, and a completely different, purposeful understanding of music and literature was put in its place. Because traditional and existing literature, while describing gods and heroes, has damaging effects on the audience (especially in the theater) due to its moral inadequacy, and presents us with burning heroes and laughing and frivolous gods. The reason for this bad effect is that literary animation starts from pure imitation or takes the existing as it is, and makes the imitator imitated. This form of narration is incapable of penetrating depth, which is why all imitative literature is worthless, and it is useless because of its effects on the soul. This understanding of literature, after the division of the soul into three and the teaching of Ideas, VI. and VII. It was revealed after the books; This annex is as obligatory as it wishes, but only after the main topic has been addressed and discussed. In addition, for the issue of rewarding the just and just, IX. A place is reserved after the Book, that is, after the discussion of the essence of the just in the soul and its consequences, this place remains in the text. In short, it would be correct to say that the views on all these and similar issues are scattered wherever they can find themselves on the edge of the discussion line of the main issue. Therefore, there is not a randomness and disorganization, but a distribution on the axis of justice. Justice will eventually find its reward, but one should not try to be just for the sake of it; this thought is an indisputable truth, an axiom for Plato; It is the result of his firm belief that there is an order in the world where the "good" Idea is above the "highest good", the divine. In this case, for the immortal soul – that the soul is immortal. In the Book, Socrates has proven – at least in that final state of the soul, purified from the scum and filth of life, there will be reward or punishment depending on the situation.

After encountering the landscape of this absolutely just world order, in which all human inadequacies and defects and the injustices that derive from them vanish, the text returns to the place from which we started (in Book II) and ends; this is the world of deception, dishonesty, evil, the gods, where they can be bribed. II. With the beginning of the book X. K.