PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Totalitarianism, Self-Control
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Ok only if it promotes harmony, as in soul and city. Guardians get to be rulers, if they are gold (414-5) In short, all have to fit in and know their place. Happiness: are guardians getting a raw deal? (419) Contrast: the view that group happiness derives solely from individual happiness. If happiness is a state of mind, you need a mind. Wealth and poverty both corrupt (420 1e) Ban innovation in music, art or physical training as it threatens the whole system (424b-c) So also with justice: each doing its own work (433-4a) Thirst, hunger, lust, are appetites: e. g. thirst is just for drink without calculation or qualification. Appetites just want a target: no thought needed. Leontius"s self-disgust: c2. so the emotional part is not the appetitive, p2. small children and animals have emotions, p3. but neither children nor animals are rational, c3. so the emotional part is not the rational.
