SOCB42H3 Study Guide - Peitho, Doxa, Political Philosophy
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Philosophy and politics go way back to the time of the trial and condemnation of socrates. The spectacle of socrates submitting his own doxa to the irresponsible opinions of the athenians, and being outvoted by a majority, made plato despise opinions and yearn for absolute standards. Such standards, by which human deeds could be judged and human thought could achieve some measure of reliability, from then on became the primary impulse of his political philosophy, Socrates knowledge was not the same as the knowledge of the artists and poets of that time he was a philosopher. In the old tradition there were two kinds of gods the good and the beautiful plato picked up good over beauty and put it up as the highest place in ideas and thinking. The reason he did this was because beauty is just something which shines but with. Goodness you can make human behaviour change and make human laws as well.
