POLITSC 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Subsidence, Aristocracy, Dangerous Power
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Ex) free person vs. slave: ethical meaning as well, free people were expected to be honest, smart, moral, hold a code of arms, plato"s republic reading, the only just city is one which philosophers become kings or kings become philosophers, definition of democracy according to socrates(cid:224) rule by the poor over the rich, overthrow of the. Plato"s account of a just city rich ruling: your soul, psyche, is a result of what you live under, a product of your environment, socrates choosing leaders (congressman, lawmakers) at random from the population, desires= necessary (water, sex, food) and unnecessary (desires for luxury, can do without them and can train yourself not to have them, oligarchs hoarded wealth, did not spend wealth, plato the son of the rich man is the one who spends it all and has a taste for wealth, not the father who saved and made the wealth.