PHL100Y1 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
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Wives and children will also be held in common. After reproductive age all sex is ok except incest. Female guardians can get the same education if they have an appropriate nature. (451c-7d) Outsiders (such as persians) would find it strange that the greeks play sports naked. Cultural relativity? (cultural norms are different for each society) Lovers of true knowledge are distinguished by lovers of sights and sounds (475d-6b) Heraclitus: taking account of relativity should eliminate the concern. Here and now can be converted to eternal truths. Instead of grasping objects, the difference might be how hard we grasp them. We are never infallible but our beliefs are more or less grounded. To say someone knows something is to imply that it"s true. Theory of forms: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, meaning: what ultimately exists, what it is to know, the ultimate source of good. Ordinary things are copies of already existing perfect objects. We long to contemplate the form of good.
