PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heraclitus, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Totalitarianism
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Plato: justice as order, not justice as fairness. Assessments of fairness(modern): luck/natural ability is unfair(mitigate differences, each transaction is performed out of free will. Communism: no property, wives, or children held privately. Gender equality: women get the same education. Lovers of true knowledge distinguished from lovers of sights and sounds(opinions) 2 pre-socratic ideals re ected: beneath phenomena there"s unchanging reality(appearance vs. reality, true knowledge can be only of that reality. Here and now can be converted to eternal truths. Therefore it is a mistake to assume that eternal truths are about eternal things. What god can"t know: i am ronnie (he is god, not ronnie) Alternative ways of thinking about opinion and knowledge: How rmly we grasp an idea or object. Theory of forms: (metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, meaning: what ultimately exists(change paradox, what it is to know(not merely opine, the ultimate source of good, justice, beauty, how words can refer to classes of things.
