POL 4 Lecture 7: Plato Book 6
7 Mar 2018
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Plato"s the republic book 6: book vi, ships, beasts, the sun, and the divided line, metaphysics c. *** skipping ships/beasts for discussion **: metaphysics i: the sun a. b. As the good is in the intelligible region with respect to intelligence [intellection or dialectical-thought: no sis ] and what is intellected [form: eidos ], so the sun is in the visible region with respect to sight and what is seen (508c). In other words, just as the sun generates light which illumines objects , allowing them to be seen, so the good generates truth which illumines the forms ( eid ), allowing them to be intellected (508d). This is how knowledge is achieved: by means of no sis, a kind of second sight. i. Visible objects - shadows, things we can see in the world. The divided line has two unequal segments , each of which is subdivided in the same ratio (509e).
