POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oligarchy, Polemarchus, Cephalus
29 Jan 2015
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* formative events: regime of the 30 tyrants; socrates" death; travel; war . Ii the significance of the dialogue form. Two conventional opinions about justice: cephalus & polemarchus. Iv - glaucon on justice & the story of the ring of gyges. V from soul to the city building the kallipolis. Plato was rich but he chose to stay out of politics. Letter written by plato when old: admits that he was excited about politics, convinced corrupt democracy would be replaced by true virtue, enthusiams died out. Shocked bu govt"s way to coerce soc. Olig so bad democracy seemed like golden ages: democracy comes back. Human race will never see end of evil unless philosophers become kings and kings become philosophers. In italy, plato spent lots of time with pythoagoreans: pyth were consumed by numbers, pyth had women in sects. In sicily plato becomes friends with dion: asked to serve as teacher in syracuse.
