PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Glaucon, Peloponnesian War, De Re Publica

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2301
• Professor: Tom Darby

Document Summary

Proceeding as we have done before, we will treat this platonic dialogue as a drama starting with the title. Original greek title o politeia (the constitution) Referring to the best or most just and beautiful const and to the boundary that constitutes it (the city) When it was used by cicero by his book by the same name, it stuck. The public thing tells you something that is true about the book but not as true. Const is a public thing so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g all the (cid:272)itize(cid:374)s share, pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es they"(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) taught. Book is about the best and most beautiful and most just constitution. *note that setting, character, and action are all about boundaries. A (cid:373)a(cid:272)ro a(cid:374)d (cid:373)i(cid:272)ro des(cid:272)riptio(cid:374) of athe(cid:374)s at the ti(cid:373)e of the dra(cid:373)ati(cid:272) a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:894)i. e. duri(cid:374)g the (cid:862)pea(cid:272)e of ni(cid:272)ias(cid:863) The time of the peace of nicias (latter third of the peloponnesian war)