ANT212H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tyrant, Eudaimonia, Socratic Method
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20 years after socrates was executed for heresy and for corrupting the youth written by plato the founder of the academy in athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Athens at this time, a democracy time of great politicians the kind of societies we live, is a matter of philosophy we should think about reflection on how one should live. Begins with plato, at the literary tradition does. All starts of connections that brings together all these traditions that are part of our literary traditions and how we should live. This is part of our own self-concept, our idea of ourselves is formed in part through dialogue with the greeks and many others that contributed to the literary tradition of which we are a part. Book i opens with socrates returning home from a religious festival in piraeus with his young friend glaucon, (one of plato"s brothers)
