POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Luxurious, Cephalus
28 Apr 2014
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Pol 200 lecture 2 (sept 23 rd ) Building the city- basic principles (self-sufficiency, specialisation: communities and cities help to shape the soul in particular ways (369d) 2 basic principles on which a city is based: self sufficiency and specialization. Luxurious city: brings need for guardian class (soldiers) 445d, suggests that this class may be an aristocracy; a ruler of one, or group: motivated by the search for truth. The classes are essential but not classified associated to class by nature. 518c power to learn is in everyone"s soul. The power of education, can shape you into something beyond your nature. Thee demanding conditions for an account of justice make it difficult, and lead plato to have recourse to the model of the city as an analogy for the soul. This analogy can be seen to work, if we look at the capacities of the soul in a specific way (as orientations rather than inner mechanics).
