What is the problem that guardians of this sort pose to the city?

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In Republic bk 2 (374a–376d), Socrates considers the question of who we should select to
be guardians for the city. What does Socrates say the nature of the guardians should be? Why do
they need to have these characteristics? And why, in particular, must the guardians have “spirit”?
What is the problem that guardians of this sort pose to the city? And how does Socrates propose to
solve it? In particular, what does the analogy between the “pedigree young dog” and the guardian
show us about the possibility of this solution? What kind of character trait does it show us must be
present in a guardian if he/she is to be good? And how, in detail, does the presence of this character
trait help us to avoid the problem that guardians pose to the city? Finally, what is one problem that
you see with Socrates’s solution if it were reformulated and updated to be a solution to the multifaceted problem of police violence facing us today? What, if anything, would this Socratic solution
not recognize in the problem facing us, that would make it unsatisfying? And, finally, how could one
modify this updated Socratic view in order to make it accommodate the issue you raise against it?

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