PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Glaucon, Short Circuit, List Of Fables Characters

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

Document Summary

Finish reading republic by the end of the break (have been asked to read 5 of the 10 books) Step back to book 2 and summarize: (then move onto 3&4 then go back to 5) Clearing of the land to prepare for a building site upon which a city will be erected. On the first page of book two they talk about the good and a kind of good that is not good because of the consequences but because it is good in to itself. The whole book is about means and ends and causes and effects. This (cid:271)ook (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t get site of the logos (cid:894)ratio(cid:374)al pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iple(cid:895) Socrates on page 2 of the book tells a myth to clear things away and turn them in the right direction. The myth is about the ring of gages; a shepherd who finds a way to short circuit cause and effect (or means and ends)