PHIL 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Luxurious, Ope
27 Oct 2016
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Key pts: ** music+poetry+physical training leads to moderation and courageous (harmony: content of stories about human beings, appropriate style for these stories. Appropriate mode & rhythm for lyric odes & songs. Right sort of love between mature men and teenage boys (seen as having educational function: physical training. Execution of incurable psycho paths: selection of rules or complete guardians fro(cid:373) a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g the (cid:272)lass of guardia(cid:374)s, housing and life-styles of the rulers. Purified city 2nd stage i(cid:374) plato"s account of the kallipois. Contains money-loving producers and honor-loving guardians, but no full-blown platonic philosophers, bc the educational institutions needed to produce these not yet developed: content of stories of human beings: Tell stories that make unafraid of death. No stories disparaging life in hades, only if praise it. Frightening dreadful names for underworld struck out, and names of dead. Rid of piiful and lamentations speeches of men. Just ppl suffer less so will sufer in silence when loved one dies.
