PHIL 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cardinal Virtues, Dennis Eichhorn, Totalitarianism
23 Sep 2017
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The globe and mail example letter to the editor, people care about something, the write a few lines, it gets published in the newspaper. (it needs to get published if you want the bonus mark. Plato: what is justice in the context of a city, class system with different tasks, different capacities and essence. Different qualities of people with different performance expectations. What is the truth: the real stuff is not stuff as its appears to us, because that change within an hour. Only philosophers can see the world of forms. If what you give as evidence is more problematic, then the question then that"s not the answer. Philosophers are put through intense training to see the world of forms. Show you that the justice that exists in plato"s city, is the same for justice in the individual. Where there are three of the virtues there is the fourth: wisdom, courage, moderation, justice (in a good city)
