PHL100Y1 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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Happiness: we aren"t aiming to make any one group outstandly happy but to make the whole city so (420b) Sometimes other people have to be miserable in order to make everyone else happier. If happiness is a state of mind, then you need a mind. Both excessive wealth and poverty are corruptive (420 1e) For this reason the guardians renounce their riches and offer them to allies. Guardians hold everything in common (424a) (early ideas of communism) Ban innovation in music, art or physical training as it threatens the whole system . The highest kind of knowledge will be possessed by the smallest number of people. The city"s courage stems from appropriately educated soldiers. Virtues of harmony: moderation --> self-control is a paradox (it"s as if you"re split in two. Part of me wants to do this but part of me doesn"t. Therefore how do you have control over yourself in this way?)
