GOVT-105 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Irony, Pol Pot, Polemarchus
21 Aug 2017
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More people vote to acquit him than he though would. Lecture notes 1/26/2017: however, he made an argument to free him of the atheist charge by proving he didn"t follow the religion of athens. If you took away their religion, you make society of the time reckless, violent, and unjust. If you take away someone"s beliefs, they may become unjust: there are worse things than being conventional. If most people are dogmatic, they will be dogmatic in every aspect of their life: open the doors for questioning instead of a new dogma. Scenes of the republic: arriving in piraeus, going to the house, and when cephalus (dad) leaves for the first time (when things have shifted) At the festival with glaucon - closest with him than the others: pay special attention to him because he seems to be the brightest of the bunch.
