PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cardinal Virtues, Stoicism, Deontological Ethics
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Why socrates hated democracy (4 min: true (a) or false (b): according to the video why socrates hated democracy he feared that democracy would deteriorate into demagoguery. Demagoguery involves persuasion appealing to emotions and prejudices rather than reason and common decency. The truth of moral goodness; the moral order of values given by the light of reason. Examined life; values: truth-loving, justice, care of the soul of self & community. Logos (logic) questioning common sense"; looking within the soul for moral guidance, testing it in rational dialogue with others. Athenian values: power, wealth, beautiful bodies, reputation (self-interest); unexamined life in this warrior class society, winning (at war, olympics, law) was the way to the good life. Claims made by poets & politicians about truth & virtue based the authority of the. Shadows on the wall: mythos (homer"s illiad and odyssey featuring zeus &
