POLS 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Polemarchus, Jerusalem In Christianity, Glaucon
18 Oct 2018
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The point of the cave is that our most important prejudgements are things that we don"t even know about. The cave is a metaphor for polis. We"re all prisoners of a cave, a polis. We have to look for the nature of things. The nature of x is what is true of x in all times and places. The book begins with the phrase i went down . The notion of descent plays a lively role in the republic. Socrates describes the story of a man called err. He went down into hades, he came out of hades and told everyone what happens when people die. Socrates says that he went down to the pireaus. The word glaucon has a meaning, bright eyed. Socrates says he"s going to build a city in his speech. The citizens of the perfect city must be disposed to their fellow citizen as if they were in a.
