PHIL 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ancient Greece, Making Money
2 Oct 2017
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Book 2: the protection of the city is the task of the guardians who by their nature are suited for this task. (400-403) Plato had most of his philosophical ideas in the form of dialogue. Book 2 is the dialogue of socrates and. So(cid:272)rates a(cid:272)(cid:272)epted the (cid:272)halle(cid:374)ge of defi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a just perso(cid:374). He first started (cid:271)y describing a just city and used the analogy to describe a just person. The guardians are supposed to be in charge of taking care of the city. When it comes to education of guardians, socrates is not comfortable. Metaphysics has to do with the answer to reality. Guardians education: socrates considers whether the poets, who enjoyed high status in the ancient greek society, could be good teachers. The answer to this question constitutes plato"s metaphysics. The building block of reality is water, fire, air, earth.
