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#he cannot simply label these things unjust in the abstract and remove them from the ideal city.#to whose needs Aristotle is particularly sensitive. Unlike Socrates#and its role as a metaphor allows it to contain logical conclusions which run wholly counter to the feasible practices of men. Aristotle permits himself no such luxury when he sets out to describe politics from the top down; he cannot overlook such thorny#he allows himself the option of overlooking the more distasteful features of real human cities simply by omitting them from the argument. His is a city whose primary purpose is to shed light on the soul of an individual#When Socrates builds up a “city in speech†from ideals