POL200Y1 Lecture : notes

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16 Jul 2011
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Today"s lecture: persuasion + compulsion, defective regimes, timocracy+ the pursuit of honor, oligarchy + the pursuit of wealth, democracy, disorder + freedom, tyranny + self-enslavement, comparison of lives. Persuasion + compulsion: socrates would say: if the philosophers are capable of higher things, as human beings they are not. Is their freedom comprised by compelling them to rule? capable of a higher sort of life than merely the mixed political/philosophical life he envisions for them. At [498a], they cannot find a better city. If somehow the philosophers did not require cities to live, then they may somehow find a way to philosophize with even more of their time than in. It"s natural for human beings to live in cities given what they are. But accounting for human nature, everything in this dialogue occurs within the confines of human nature. Hence, the philosophers will live the best life that human beings are capable of.

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