POLB72H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Healthy City, Socratic Method, Polemarchus
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Lecture 2 the ancients (understanding the ancients as they understood themselves) Known as the philosopher who discovered the forms of the good and wrote the republic around 380 bce. Socrates: the unexamined life is not worth living: the only way of arriving at a higher conception of truth is by taking the arguments of ones opponents seriously and demonstrating their logical deficiencies and contradictions. Republic: major characters: socrates narrator, cehalus retied old businessman, polemarchus son of cephalus, thrasymachus sophist rhetorician, glaucon plaato brother, adeimantyus platos older half brother. The slave boy complies and exits the scene. It is almost as if the dialogue about justice cannot begin until the slave has exited the scene. It appears that a dialogue can only take place among equals. Socrates interlocutors, slave boy is not an equal, it shows us the nature of the society.
