POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thrasymachus, Theory-Theory, Tyrant
23 Mar 2017
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Something in the middle of truth and ignorance. Opinion stands between knowledge of form and complete ignorance. Adeimantus"s objection (book vi: philosophers are either useless or wicked, adeimantus complains that socrates is making a sophist argument. Those who have the capacity for philosophy are the ones most capable of doing evil: plato has a high regard for the intellect, sees it as the instrument for great good or destruction. Intelligence used properly is the greatest benefit to politics, used improperly then it is the greatest evil: the type of characters that make a good ruler can also create evil. Depends whether one wants to take the direction of socrates or. Plato often pushes that philosophers should be rulers. But he also speaks of how if one is easily corrupted, they should stay away and have a private life. Thrasymachus, one would only be a ruler to get a benefit.
