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A dialogue starring one of these people and the poet Simonides was the subject of a 1950s correspondence about the feasibility of “Epicurean” (10[2])isolation for philosophers. A pseudo-mathematical passage calculates these people to be 729 times [emphasize] less happy (10[1])than their counterparts. (-5[1])A Xenophon dialogue (-5[1])titled for one of these people is the subject of a Leo Strauss essay “on” them that kicked off his debate with Alexander Kojève (“ko-ZHEV”). One of these people flouted (-5[1])his tutor’s injunction against writing philosophy, according to the Seventh Letter. Plato (10[1])argued that these people are slaves of their own desires (10[1]-5[2])in Book 9 (10[1]-5[1])of the Republic (10[1])and attempted to educate one of them in Sicily. (-5[1])Aristotle (10[2])listed a system named (-5[1])for these people as a “deviant” constitution along with oligarchy and democracy. (10[2]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[1])ancient philosophers debated (10[1])the virtue of killing what absolute rulers? ■END■ (10[7]0[3])

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