POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tyrant, Thrasymachus, Jerusalem In Christianity
6 Dec 2013
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The philosopher: justifying his rule and explaining why he won"t rule. Plato is trying to convince us why philosophers should be kings and kings philosophers best people to rule a city/state. Why they"re exceptional, why we should trust them. Philosopher is driven by his love for wisdom. He is someone who has true knowledge, whereas the rest of us just have opinion. Knowledge is stable and it can be taught. The philosopher is a quick learner, a music person, good memory, in control of all desires (wealth, money, etc. ) Adeimentus reality is different philosopher are corrupt or useless for the city. At best, philosophers are useless for the city because they stay away from politics and don"t seem to have anything sensible to say about politics when they do take part. The make the city worse, they corrupt men, they put us into debt, they accuse power. 487d throw the good ones overboard.
