PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Strong Focusing
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Reason for delay to answer the three questions of justice: plato is concerned to do two things in detail: 1. most importantly, what part of your soul it is to allow reason to rule in your soul which turns out to involve difficulty because not everyone has reason ruling their soul. 2. in order to show why having a harmonious soul makes you being a just person, he must show why what a disharmonious soul looks like and why that makes you unjust. Glaucon"s and adeimantus" three waves of objection to plato"s radical notions of an ideal society: The status of women and children in society - a radical view; plato wants to abolish the traditional family. Women are equal to men and should adopt social roles. Society should practice selective breeding: the state should have legitimate interest in your appropriated sexual activities.