PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Glaucon

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

Document Summary

Getting your test back the thursday of week 12. Next week: unit 5 critical thinking ch. 4 and thursday read housing/property & objection within the republic. Last class: recap of glaucon and socrates" ideal city matters, luxury (things that we want, but do not need) letting these in will result in these inevitable consequences: crime, war and empire according to socrates. A second class: producers (workers): people who make and do our necessary and unnecessary desires. They are the ones who keep us alive: essential known as the guardians whose responsibility is to keep responsibility within the city (policeman or a warrior). Remember that some are both based on previous lectures. Socrates indicates that the guardians must have a soul, also known as a spirit (thymos) . Constellation of characteristics: brave, courageous, resilient, tenacious, proud, honor: they have these characteristics, but they do not moderate them in anyway.