  So a mixed interpretation seems to be called for (Morrison 2001; cf. Kamtekar 2001, Meyer 2004, and Brennan 2004). In the  Republic, the good of the city and the good of the  individual are independently specifiable, and the citizens’ own  maximal good coincides with the maximal good of the city. Since Plato believes that this coincidence is realized only through  propagandistic means in the ideal city, the propaganda is  paternalistically targeted at the citizens’ own good but not  exclusively at the citizens’ own good. On this view, if the citizens  do not see themselves as parts of the city serving the city, neither  the city nor they will be maximally happy.