PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Counterargument
10 Sep 2016
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Wrote many dialogues (about 26) socrates was the main character. Plato writes down dialogues characterized by the use of scorative method: called midwifing. Previous chapter, plato stated that we are in need of the structure of the state (division of. Main ideas: the idea of unity, the idea of harmony and balance, the idea of education. Keeps one from yielding to the lawly desires. Exchanging jobs among the 3 classes are not desirable at all. It will only harm the state and leads to social and political disaster and possible destruction of the state. The guardians are not only protectors but also guardians of the principle of justice. How plato turns to the concept of justice on the level of the individual (previous is about justice within a polis) For that purpose he has to investigate the concept of soul. Soul has three parts (by analogy with the 3 classes in the state: rational, spiritual, irrational.
