POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Plutocracy, Alvin Risk, Timocracy
28 Apr 2014
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The need to go beyond the city and the soul: knowledge is communicated through three important images. Background to plato"s theory of forms (sceptics, parmenides, pythagoreans: three strains of thought that had significant influence on plato, the sceptics: you can"t step into the same river twice (because it is in constant movement). Reality is always in flux, you cannot have good knowledge of things as we see them because there is no such thing as real continuity. The sun, line and cave (books 6 &7: the sun (508) the form of the good is like the sun. The sun is something that transfers part of itself into the living world: the line (end of book 6): the line between things we see and things we think about. It becomes clear that the model of the city is not sufficient for a full understanding of justice as harmony.
