POL200Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Study Questions: Binge Drinking, Cephalus, Polemarchus
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Look at a page of the republic, any page. One character says one thing; another character contradicts him; the work proceeds by means of a series of disagreements. By using a conversation / discourse to outline whatever he wants to say, plato allows readers to understand arguments through many different points of view. Additionally, this allows plato to combat every disagreement a statement of his may receive. The reader questions his words, and the next paragraph another character questions the same thing and plato explains why he is right. It makes his argument the only logical one by addressing the counterargument and disproving it. There was a seaport, however, the piraeus, a bustling hub of commerce still the largest port in greece today. It is there that the conversation reported in the republic takes place. To hear old cephalus tell it, he and socrates have much in common.
