CLA232H1 Lecture : Plato's Apology
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Alterity within society ~ if not solved, can lead to fracturing of society (e. g. , athens, 2 oligarchic coups at the end of 5th c. ) Politics is a competition all or nothing. Older man will educate the young lover (old-fashioned education: teaching him values of athenian elite community traditional, consolidates class hierarchy, identity, convert social elite to political elite. advantages of wealth >> advantages of political power (buy education) 430s, sophists: sophia, wisdom, sophists = traveling teachers (wise men, teach rhetoric for a fee. subversive to (old) aristocratic elite: sophists = strangers, foreigners, take money for education. how to know if they are in it for the money only: upholds no other virtues but wisdom (and rhetoric, know of them from enemy records (biased to them being suspicious, bad) radical. protagoras: man measure of all things (~ might makes right)
