POLC70H3 Lecture Notes - Thumos, Meddle, Lux
Document Summary
In greek world: there is a separating of nature and convention in greek philosophy: last week review: 3 unifying themes in this course: political community, political leadership, justice and law. Law is always to be derived from justice. The sophists: specialized teachers in various subjects in political life, more specially red- dric. Socrates: first great philosopher of humanity. - later condemned to death by his citizens- thought threat-impiety and corruption of youth: book i of the republic base info. Plato 421-470 bc, height of peloponnisan war, political questions on all minds. Offers first systemic answers to things such as justice etc. Originally called politeia well ordered or well governed city. Focuses on public needs, not private needs. Very wide-ranging work, not just about politics-but offers info about philosophy, math, geo, history too. Ideal city that embodies the virtue of justice. Critical work-this city never existed-but implied that existing were defective, degenerate and unjust: book i of the republic.
