POLI1041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crass, Advantageous, Nepotism
20 Jun 2016
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Plato"s republic: why is he great, he raised the necessary questions. A. 2. what makes good governance in the modern age? still contemplating the same political questions. Background: 428-348, wrote the republic, the laws, the statesman, know little about his life, dabbled in practical politics as a member of the political elite in athens (elected to office) E. 2. accused of treason, getting young people to think of the government negatively drank hemlock poison: plato withdrew from politics and became cynical because of the death of socrates. F. 2. b) learning was not rote memorization civil service required student sot know the law, plato"s academy was dif- ferent. F. 4. b) virtue is knowledge a man does not know anything until he begins to know that he does not know what he thinks he knows (needs to question: believed there was and could be an objectively good life.
