PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Utopia
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Communism and gender equality: (cid:862)wi(cid:448)es a(cid:374)d (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:449)ill also (cid:271)e held i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) After reproductive age, all sex is acceptable except incest (461b: women guardians can get the same education if they have an appropriate nature (451c-457d) Plato as the first feminist: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:455) see(cid:373) st(cid:396)a(cid:374)ge, (cid:271)ut g(cid:396)eeks used to thi(cid:374)k it st(cid:396)a(cid:374)ge to e(cid:454)e(cid:396)(cid:272)ise naked as barbarians do now (452c) True knowledge: the city will exist when philosophers rule (475e, a true philosopher seeks true knowledge (477b, lovers of true knowledge are distinguished from lovers of sights and sounds (475d- 476b: the latter have opinion, the former knowledge. A strange doctrine knowledge and opinion have different objects: Two pre-socratic ideas are reflected here: be(cid:374)eath phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)a the(cid:396)e(cid:859)s u(cid:374)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g (cid:396)ealit(cid:455, true knowledge can be only of that reality. Opinion is partly conflated with perception (perceptible things change their appearance) But also with relative judgement (e. g. of size)
