PHILOS 2P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eristic, Tyrant, Dialectic
31 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Meno"s paradox and the theory of recollection dialectic. As a dialec4cian, he holds a merciless tool in his hand; he can become a tyrant by means of it; he compromises those he conquers. The dialec4cian leaves it to his opponent to prove that he is not an idiot: he enrages and neutralizes his opponent at the same 4me. The dialec4cian renders the intellect of his opponent powerless. Indeed, in socrates, is dialec4c only a form of revenge? . Nietzsche, twilight of the idols, the problem of socrates, 7. Definitions of virtue: being able to manage public affairs (harm ememies, benefit, friends, etc. ) Justice method: being able to rule over the others, desiring beautiful things and having the power to get them, the power of getting goods things. (ypotheses only after meno pushes socrates to ove along: the geometer"s. Does the method of hypothesis continue throughout plato"s middle and late.
