PHIL1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Locri, Timocracy
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Hermocrates law maker as well as a tyrant he subjugates the people of athens, allies with sparta, the warrior state he is an athenian nobleman aristocrat perhaps another ctional character but could have been based on the real man. Socrates gives his guests a regime his interlocutors are asked to give him a war. Socrates wants to send this representation of a city into con ict this is somehow a gift so socrates in return for him hearing what they have to say. Nd success in this ctional regime the central role of this text is to look at the way to put a regime of this description into e ect it is a model of pre-socratic thought. First start to the narrative historical/mythical he uses an animal as a metaphor for the universe political aspect this is a commentary on the time plato is living in.
