POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Top
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Courage is a sort of preservation. : courage such as holding your ground. Resides in the auxiliaries" abilities to retain their training and education through the test of pleasure and pain. Mastery of the stronger part of the self over the weaker part. On the larger scale of the city, it is the mastery of the stronger few (the auxiliaries and. People have roles and stick to their roles. If the just man is like the just city, then there should be a similar ordering of parts found in each. It is not possible for something to do one things and its opposite at the same time. The image of the spinning top: it moves but stays still at the same time, there must be different aspects of it: one that moves, one that does not move. There is similarly a part of the soul that reasons, and one that desires.
