IH 0852 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Healthy City, Oligarchy, Noble Lie

• School: Temple University
• Department: Intellectual Heritage
• Course: IH 0852
• Professor: Matthew Smetona

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Demonstrate the intrinsic goodness of the just life: the just life is the only good life, even if it results in negative or disadvantageous consequences for one (intrinsic) Explain the nature of philosophical knowledge: knowledge of ignorance, philosophers possess the knowledge of the fact that they are ignorant to certain things, non-philosophers are unaware of their ignorance. Articulate the theory of the forms and the good: knowledge or recognition of the concepts (forms) that things participate in, not the embodiment of them. I. e. the concept of beauty, the form of justice: evaluated by the extent of participation or expression of the form. Thursday, august 31, 2017: because the form of justice is not capable of being actualized, all existing societies are unjust. Explain the holistic relation between individual and collective virtue: if society is unjust, acting justly is unjust. Individual virtue can not be de ned by societies de nition of justice, we can critique society by universal philosophical standpoints.