PHILOS 1 Lecture 5: PlatoLecture5Fall2016
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Question: what"s wrong with the concept of self-control: justice: doing one"s own work and not meddling with what isn"t one"s own (433a8-9). Question 2: does plato justify this conception of justice: virtues of the individual (435b3-436a4, same virtues are to be found in individual as in city (435d7-e1) Question: what is the significance of claiming that there distinct parts or capacities in the soul: family & society (449c1-471c1, philosopher-kings (472a3-504a1) >objection: lovers of sights and sounds are philosophers (476d1-e1) Question: what is it for something to be intermediate between knowledge. Objection: of all those who take up philosophy the greatest number become cranks, not to say completely vicious, while those who seem completely decent are rendered useless to the city because of the studies you recommend (487c5-2). Response: why nature of cities makes it the case that true philosophers are useless or corrupts them and how it should be changed (488e1- A the most important subject (504d1): the good.
