POLC70H3 Lecture : polb70 lecture notes
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Pol b70: classic texts of political theory i: professor lee. The republic an agenda-setting work for classical political theory. Some ambiguities in later readings of the words, politeia and respublica. Often has positive connotations meaning constitutional government" to contrast against regimes that are lawless. A wide-ranging work chiefly about politics, but it"s not limited to political theory. Plato touches upon various areas of study such as epistemology (the philosophical study of knowledge and belief), ontology (the area of philosophy dealing with being and non-being), literary theory, education, poetry, music. All of this resolves around the main task of the republic: to design an ideal city which embodies the virtue of justice. Book i of the republic is notable for several reasons. Dialogue form: book i is an excellent example of what is called the elenchus, or the elenctic method" commonly called socratic method" after plato"s teacher, socrates.
