PHIL 2280 Lecture 2: Philosophers vs Poets and Forms

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2280
• Professor: Omid Payrow Shabani

Document Summary

In addition to the syllabus there are 4,5 important topic/get when read book, they are the guiding ideas. The focus of the course is justice, it can mean everything and nothing. Plato gave the first in depth and systematic account of justice, political power and society (book 3,4,5,7)prior to the start of the excerpts, in book 2 is the start of the excerpts. Going further, the structure of the republic, dialogue was a way of verifying ideas in ancient greece. Plato had most of his philosophical ideas communicated though dialogue. Socrates what a just person is, first he describes a just city and by way of analogy gets to a just person. Book 2: the protection of the city is to be the task of the guardians, who by their nature studied for this task. (school, training, gymnastics. ) Socrates said poets were responsible for their school training,