PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Demagogue
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The city will only be just if people keep their place. Token/type (476a) [e. g. beauty and the ladder of love] [note role of ignorance in the opinion/ knowledge distinction. ] Philosophers (480) = lovers of wisdom = knowers of reality = forms. But: the forms are not abstract categories; they have transcendent real existence. Total knowledge of the forms would turn us into the forms. The things that we see in the mortal plane are unreal in our reality. In an instance ordering us is a form. When you encounter a beautiful thing or person your soul is drawn to it or more so drawn to the aspect of beauty in it. Alcibiades and plato"s symposium) the demagogue has limited. They get paid to argue against other philosophers. The ship (488b): who steers correctly? shabby philosopher. knowledge of philosophy yet is better than a sophist. Symposium: a drinking party where people would discuss various topics over wine.
