PHIL-330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Polemarchus, Cephalus, Glaucon
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Journey to the underworld at the end of the dialogue. Bendus associated with artemis who was god of the moon, hunt, etc. but also persephone who is captured by hades. Socrates is held back and forced to stay in piraeus; reflects myth of persephone trying to leave the underworld. Go to pole(cid:373)ar(cid:272)hus" house, (cid:374)ot cephalus" [(cid:1007)(cid:1006)8(cid:272)]: had(cid:374)"t see(cid:374) the perso(cid:374) i(cid:374) a lo(cid:374)g ti(cid:373)e; refers to him as old. Indicates (cid:862)(cid:455)ou should (cid:448)isit (cid:373)ore ofte(cid:374)(cid:863) to speak (cid:449)ith the (cid:455)ou(cid:374)g people: o(cid:272)rates is k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) for his (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374) for souls, a(cid:374)d t5hus. Appeal to the audience: the person listening to socrates, us, and the actual interlocutors. Theme of up and down: dramatically, ascending down to the piraeus; and down and up used as a repeated image. Theme of philosophy: as an activity; what is it and what is its goal. Theses and positions will be presented but possibly incompletely; doctrines of ethics/metaphysis (ie forms)
