PHILOS 22 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tyrant, Perfect Number, Timocracy
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Women must help and children must learn in order for the city to function in future. Kings must have best philosophy when war comes around. Auxiliary must have belonging, but little things themselves and focus on taking care. Must observe citizens of city to determine which is best and worst of city pg239. Humans must understand and follow constitution in order to govern city. Study the 4 constitutions to discover the unjust in the city pg 240. Find unjust and most just to determine purity of justice/injustice. Must look at virtues of character through the constitution. Democracy to democratic man, oligarchy to oligarchy man, etc. Must come to understand each of these men. Will be destroyed by natural selection and revolution pg241. Leaders of city will eventually fail to meet demands and protect city. The geometrical number controls better and worse births pg242. Older generations will choose best of young children.
