POLSCI 2O06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Entrust, Socalled, Thrasymachus
12 Sep 2018
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His next topic is the appropriate style for these stories to have and the appropriate mode and rhythm for lyric odes and songs. During this discussion, he makes important remarks about all the arts and the about the right sort of love between mature men and teenage boys. The latter topic may strike us as out of place, but in fact these sorts of relationships were conceived by plato and his contemporaries as having educational function. It includes an important discussion of medical treatment that a kallipolis should provide and a provision for the execution of incurable psychopaths. The next topic is the selection of rulers or complete guardians from among the class of guardians. Socrates does not explain why he thinks there have to be rulers in the kallipolis. Perhaps like thrasymachus, he assumes that in a world of unequal power, someone will in fact always rule. The final topic is the housing and life-style of the rulers.
