POL200Y1 Lecture : Lecture notes for October 6, 2010

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Since this city has been created to be the best city possible, we can be sure that it has all the virtues. In order to define these virtues, all we need to do is look into our city and identify them. On the one hand, the many details of the just city lead us to believe that plato is providing more than a mere model of the just soul. On the other hand, plato offers hints that the city is impossible, a chimera. There are various ways we could try to make sense of the tension. I argue that the tension is meant to be productive, playing on a human sense of honor and challenge to enhance our commitment to a rigorous idea of truth and to engage our imaginations. The same tension between a promise of justice and its apparent betrayal plays out in his treatment of women in the text.

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