ACS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deontological Ethics, Consequentialism, Sicilian Expedition
17 Mar 2016
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Thucydides, the landmark thucydides, ed robert b strassler, new york: free press 1996. Much of the beginning of philosophy is because socrates died in the way that he did: his followers continued his work. 415: sicilian expedition (led by alcibiades: athen fleet destroyed, alcibiades defects t the spartans. 404-3 sparta wins, thirty tyrants: many of the thirty tyrants are related to plato. Sparta is not democratically organized: they are more militaristic. Some may say that socrates changes alcibiades to become the untrustworthy man who destroyed his people. 399 bc: socrates sentenced to death for corrupting the youth. Aristotle is the student of plato who is the student of socrates. And the greatest thing in my art is this: to be able to test, by every means, whether it"s an imitation and a falsehood that the young man"s intellect is giving birth to, or something genuine and true.
