POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Vishvarupa, Thrasymachus
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Pol200 lecture 6 plato; republic book v-vi. Socrates calls it three waves of arguments. A wisdom of a particular kind: socrates says philosophers should have true knowledge govern with the truth. A knowledge which is a universal form. Knowledge not concerned with appearances but with form: philosophers have a passion for truth of forms, forms are not the individual object but the objective of beauty itself. Beauty is a form: for plato, beautiful is a universal form exists independently from any other object. Things in the material world exist with them: plato differentiates two important ways of knowing things equivalent to two essential ways of reality, truth vs. Is(cid:374)"t there so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g i(cid:374)-between truth and ignorance. Opinion is more shadowy than knowledge, not as clear, so it is like a middle grown: forms are discovered through reason, plato tries to weave together the political, psychological and philosophical. Socrates says the true pilot is like the philosopher.
