POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tyrant, Decision-Making, Ruling Class
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Agenda: constitutions of the city, happiness of the just society, more on the essay. Socrates wants to compare the life of a just person with the lives of the unjust. This requires describing the bad constitutions, as well as the good ones. Five constitutions (cid:862)no(cid:449), (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e al(cid:396)ead(cid:455) des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)ed the o(cid:374)e (cid:449)ho is like a(cid:396)isto(cid:272)(cid:396)a(cid:272)(cid:455), the o(cid:374)e (cid:449)e (cid:396)ightl(cid:455) des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)e as good a(cid:374)d just. Kallipois would be an aristocracy if there were multiple philosopher kings. The inferior regimes and souls emerge from the better ones through decay and. It would be a monarchy if only one philosopher king can be found corruption: eg. The best regime begins to decay through the intermixing of metals. How the regime change occurs (cid:862)it is diffi(cid:272)ult fo(cid:396) a (cid:272)it(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)stituted i(cid:374) this (cid:449)a(cid:455) to (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge. Ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)e(cid:396), si(cid:374)(cid:272)e e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g that comes-to-be must decay, not even one so constituted will last forever. On the contrary, it, too, must face dissolution.
