POL200Y1 Lecture : lecture Note - Plato (VERY DETAILED)
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The content of poetry and virtue have been reformed. There will be music in the best city, but only marshal music. Poetry is only left with a dull journalistic account. Socrates extends his censorship to the total human environment. We encounter the compensation for all the sacrifices that must be made to the erotic. The compensation is worthy object for galucon"s eros. Such a city would rear perfectly beautiful and harmonious soul. But only a purified eros can love such purified souls. So it would be a look but don"t touch kind of eros. The medical authority turns out to be homer. Socrates says that treatments must not incapacitate a warrior but must be a political one. Such medicine is seen in the modern-day quality-of-life arguments. Socrates is concerned above all is civic life. If someone"s health is good enough that he can recover from mild treatment, its fine.
