PHILOS 3XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anglo-Irish Big House, Cardinal Virtues, Sophia (Wisdom)
26 Oct 2017
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The lives of the rulers: the guardians will have a great deal of power. Happiness: city and citizens: adeimantus objects (at the beginning of book 4): These guardians will not be happy, since they lack big houses, ne furnishings, gold and the like: socrates responds: The guardians may well be happy without great wealth, for all he knows. In any case, this is beside the point: their aim is to make the whole city happy, not just one group in it. Completing the city: (a) wealth and poverty (421c-422d): Both great wealth and great poverty are bad for a city: wealth makes craftspeople idle, poverty makes for slavishness and bad work, and both can foster unrest. The city needn"t be rich to be safe and secure: it will contain many expert soldiers, and will provide an unattractive target for attacks given its lack of wealth: b) unity (422e-423d):
