[ARTSSCI 1A06] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (63 pages long)
7 Feb 2017
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Doesn"t actually represent people in reality - they are caricatures, not real people. Written by plato after socrates" death - socrates is the main character. Gad y method - questioning to the point of aporia (philosophical impasse, state of puzzlement). Plato in the republic - concerned with the form of justice, the good state, and ideals. High metaphysical ideals were plato"s idea, not socrates". All platonic dialogues have socrates except one - and in that, the athenian stranger is probably socrates. Socrates annoys the hell out of nobles. Sophists ( man is the measure of all things ) vs. plato ( the good and justice ). If the law is unjust, you are not just for following it. How do you argue for a good regime against legitimate. Create a city in speech - a great city. You need good men for the city. The poets and the performers, who ll their impressionable minds with nonsense.
