PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Timocracy, Tyrant, Oligarchy
12 Jan 2017
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Good father in a badly governed city. Father of democratic character is a just person. Tyranny one dictator who holds position by force, is feared. Aristocracy-timocracy-timocratic to oligarchy-oligarchy to democracy-democracy to tyranny. The good oligarchy is wealth, the desire for wealth and neglect of other things is what destroyed it the ppl who were ruling cared too much about money, the people from below overthrow the rich. - the emphasis on one thing ruins other things. So democracy (you put emphasis on freedom) then there"s too much freedom and you need a tyrant to take it away. Comparison between the perfectly just character and the perfectly unjust character (the tyrant) The just person loves better in the sense that they live a more pleasurable life. You need to organize the parts of your soul to rationality rules and your spirit is under reason, and you have control of your appetites = just.
