Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oligarchy, Autarky, Epicurus

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2237E
• Professor: Richard Vande Wetering

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Lecture 5 plato comes from a well off family, he was educated and raised comfortably. Initially wants to become politician until he meets socrates, leading philosopher of the time. After o(cid:272)rates dies plato esta(cid:271)lishes a(cid:374) a(cid:272)ade(cid:373)y of philosophy i(cid:374) athe(cid:374)s (cid:272)alled (cid:862)the toas(cid:863) Travelled to north africa and egypt, was influenced by pythagoras (pythagorean thereom) he was a radical vegetarian, his followers believed he could communicate with animals. When you joined his cult you were only able to absorb so much information and then you would be enlightened by their secrets. Harmony was an important idea for pythagoras and became one for plato. Pythagoras was regarded as the (cid:272)reator of the idea of frie(cid:374)dship; (cid:862)frie(cid:374)ds ha(cid:448)e all thi(cid:374)gs i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:449)hat you ha(cid:448)e is your frie(cid:374)ds a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat is your frie(cid:374)ds is yours. Visited sicillie, where he was a political consultant, gave advice on how to organize the polity to a king, which did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork out.