PHILOS 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Glaucon, Xenophanes, Cardinal Virtues
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368d-369a; 434d-435a: move 2: it"s rationale. We would think that justice in a person and the state would be exactly the same. Well cause its next to the river! Why is beauty not like bank: if there is a genuine unity, some one thing, then beauty has to be a genuine cut across all reality, carving out a real class of things, a grounding explanation. : task of philosophy is the discover this explanation. Wednesday, october 25, 2017: theory of form gives shape. Aristotle points out criticism: terrain is much more complex than extremes of ambiguity and one single explanation. If justice isn"t radically ambiguous like bank: move 3: founding of the ideal state. Two principles: need/lack of individual self-su ciency. We don"t do well on our own, we have to band together into communities: specialization of labor. Better that we specialize: increases people"s talent and competence.
