Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Touch Gold, Noble Lie, Gossip
8 Mar 2018
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Send out adults from city, kids under 10-12 stay with philosophers. Find king who will listen to philosopher and make changes. Sympathetic king that will listen to philosopher and implements changes. Creation of just polity responsibility of first philosophers and second ones will do maintenance. Tell appetitive lies - part of philosopher"s duty and should b continued when polity is created. Tell people they have gold in their soul so they do not touch gold. If you have gold in your soul, you should not pollute that gold by touching gold. Philosophers will not touch gold and be corrupted by it. Choosing the next guardians (most important responsibility) This choice affects everything else-can lead to ruin of polity. Breeding program - philosophers best offspring, run program. Plato assumes there is a steady ratio of philosophers, guardians, appetitive. Brave new world - creates proportion of those groups using machines. Observe children for intelligence at young age.
