Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Timocracy
4 Jun 2016
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No it doesn"t matter big premise is knowledge trumps nature (class difference and sex difference are irrelevant in this particular statement) A touch of communism: 4th premise will guardians be happy in their role: 5th premise. 1. can grasp that which is always and in the same way (things that stay same and don"t change e. g. philosophical soul) 2. without falsehood; hate falsehood and love the truth. 3. has no sign of illiberality (small mindedness) Theory of form everything that exists in world has corresponding universal former concept (all materialistic items as well) e. g. types of trees, single overarching concept of trees known as treeness. All existing trees are imperfect example of a perfect tree the good is world in total perfection form: object of understanding rather then an object of material sensation: we can understand them as trees because of universal concept.
