PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Episteme, Totalitarianism, Gender Equality
14 Jan 2014
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Aristotle phronesis, deliberation, the good life, justice. Sophists - taught rhetoric how to defend oneself in court. Metics - not free to participate in the institutions of the state. Allegory of the cave imitations of the real world. How to govern is normative, not just prudential (sophists) and theoretical (involves real knowledge): rule by lovers of wisdom i. e. philosophers who have episteme: knowledge of. Forms (conceptual, theoretical knowledge) elitism not any cook can govern. Until lovers of wisdom rule or until rulers become lovers of wisdom : property and the raising of children in common. Restores importance of political process: ends up preserving natural slavery and paternalism, allegiance to the whole important, but other allegiances to other associations too. Despite being listed as intellectual virtue (as opposed to moral virtues), it is: Without phronesis, we cannot be just, honest, etc. 2. 2 sth we have in virtue of character and disposition (unlike nous: phronesis as character and disposition.
