HUI 235 Study Guide - Final Guide: Callicles, Ideal City, Physis
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The strong and intelligent need to be stopped from oppressing others, and doing what nature intended them too. Antiphon argues that: physis are products of growth; while nomoi are forms of agreement. Golden mean: not too little, not too much. Sophists: teachers who taught how to speak at assembly or low courts. Man is the measure of all things , referring to humanity"s perspective. According to socrates, people form communities to acquire more talent/job diversity. Says that justice is valuable for its own sake. Socrates ideal city includes: laborers, guardians, and rulers. Plato"s theory of forms = forms have an independent existence of their own. A hat is not the actual idea of the original thought of a hat. Not only did they sell knowledge, but they wrongfully persuaded people into buying it. Employed allegories to discuss things that could not be explained simply in common words.