POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - Republic (Plato), Royal Institute Of Technology
3 Dec 2013
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Should material affluence be strictly restricted? (dangerous, moral reasons etc. ) Should politics seek justice (social, political) (machiavelli) about power and for the preservation of the state. We all see the image of the world through filters. We see our own political, morals, other people through filters. Block our recognition of what it actually is in reality. You must learn of the fact the we use filters to see the world politics, moral values, ethical issues. Recognize the possibility that seeing things without filters may not be fully possible , becomes an ongoing mystery that we have to challenge and work through. Book about the meaning of justice, but also about more than the meaning of justice. Philosophy on one hand and demands of politics on the other. Politics and philosophy have a hard time combining themselves like religion and politics. Plato was born in 428 b. c, in his youth, was a member of the socrates circle, engaged with.
