PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Physical Exercise, Noble Lie
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Finishing up from last time: the construction of the feverish society, and the need for a guardian class. The challenge in producing a human guardian -someone completely loyal to citizens and merciless toward outsiders. Plato s proposal is to mould character through education: note: he is producing someone who fits polemarchus s definition of justice perfectly, which can hardly be an accident, note: care given to this question. The formation of moral character: the education of the guardians, and why not only education, but the right kind of education, makes all the difference: note: the variety of topics covered. The project of purifying the feverish society (399e) Splitting the guardians into the rulers and the auxiliaries (412b: ideal of universal class . Class whose interest is that of society as a whole. Whether it is possible to create such a class. No social structure: it isn t appropriate to dictate men who are fine and good.
