PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Glaucon

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1102
• Professor: Mark Brown

Document Summary

Ancient greek philosopher, student of socrates, teacher of aristotle. Plato introduced the idea that their mistakes were due to their not engaging properly with a class of entities he called forms, chief examples of which were justice, beauty, and equality. In his written dialogues he conveyed and expanded on the ideas and techniques of his teacher socrates. Republic, his most famous work, he envisioned a civilization governed not by lowly appetites but by the pure wisdom of a philosopher-king. Socrate is always the main character in dialogue of plato. Book : the republic" - utopian in nature. Metaphysics: concerns the ultimate components of reality, the types of things that exist, the nature of cause, change, time, god, free will, and so on. Plato"s metaphysics puts forth the idea of two realities that can be explained as the. An imperfect world, where everything changes and nothing lasts forever. Because they are not subject to change, they remain the same (eternal)