GOVT-105 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Politeia, Philosopher King
21 Aug 2017
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Three ways: equality of the sexes, communism of the family, philosopher king. Injustice of family: nepotism, money favoring family, hoarding resources, perpetuates classes. Not trying to get rid of love of ones one but instead stretch it out to encompass the entire city: testament to the inability in getting rid of this love. Justice to socrates is harmony but not when it comes to land outside of the city. Socrates never used the word state: politics - polis - city = republic - politeia - regime/constitution, modern political thought says the state is at odds with the society itself, socrates wants no separation between city and society. Every animal fights harder in the presence of its offspring: this is a problem for socrates because people will do things they aren"t expected or supposed to do. For the city to fulfill human nature, people have no belief in the common good: yet the city also goes against human nature, ex.
