PHI 1101 Final: PHI 1101 Unit 3 to 8 Notes (FOR EXAM)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

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Identify the food of the city w/ their own good: chosen from the warrior class, older than the ruled, the best of the warrior class: they must be knowledgeable & capable. If city does badly, they will do badly | if city does well, they will do well. Individually necessary & jointly sufficient being a good ruler. Division of guardian class: guardians (warriors => to be called auxiliarians, true guardians (rulers => to be called guardians) Explain socrates"s account of the origin of the city & its classes up to & including the guardian (ruling) class in terms of the necessary & sufficient conditions for a flourishing human life (11 marks) The city is necessary condition of a flourishing human life b/c none of us is self-sufficient; the city meets our basic human needs by division of labour & distribution of goods. (1 mark)